words, unless the sentence gives you a better preposition to use immediately before the dative noun. The orange tag in the above Greek sentence is in the dative case—notice how “in” is being used in the translation. 4. ACCUSATIVE:1 A noun is inflected as an accusative to indicate the direct object2 in the sentence. The red tag in the above Greek sentence is in the accusative case, indicating the object. 5. VOCATIVE:3 A noun is inflected as a vocative to indicate direct address. It is a formal
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