BENEFACTIVE CASE


The 'benefactive case' (abbreviated 'BEN') is a case used where English would use "for", "for the benefit of", or "intended for", e.g. "She opened the door ''for Tom''" or "This book is ''for Bob''".
This meaning is often incorporated in a dative case. In Latin this type of dative is called the ''dativus commodi''.
An example of a language with a benefactive case is Basque, which has a benefactive case ending in ''-entzat''. Quechua is another example, and the benefactive case ending in Quechua is ''-paq''. Tangkhul-Naga (from the Tibeto-Burman group of languages) has the benefactive case marker ''-wiʋaŋ''.

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