DATIVE PRONOUNS
If nouns have cases, then pronouns, which take the place of nouns in a sentence, will also have cases! Pronouns, however, don’t always follow the same declension rules. You’ve already seen a few pronouns in the dative case. Here are a few listed together:
mihi to/for me
tibi to/for you (singular)
nōbīs to/for us
vōbīs to/for you (plural)
DATIVE WITH SPECIAL VERBS
There are other uses for the dative, including some verbs which use the dative case where one might expect the accusative. Many of these special verbs can be translated using the preposition “to” – which is a helpful reminder that the dative is needed!
For example, the Latin verb, ignōscō, could be translated as, “I forgive,” but it really carries the sense of “I grant pardon to.” Thus the object must really be an indirect object in Latin, and so ignōscō is always followed by a noun in the dative case.
Here are just a few other common verbs and phrases which take the dative:
placeō, placēre to please (to be pleasing to)
nūbō, nūbere to marry, (to be married to)
licet it is allowed, it is permitted (for)
necesse est it is necessary (for)
pāreō, pārēre to obey (to be obedient to)
faveō, favēre to favor