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Feb. 12th, 2010 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeThe dative case is used with the words [надо] and [нужно] to express necessity and with [можно] to express possibility. Often, however, these words are used without a dative complement. If you have a specific person in mind, use the dative case for that person.
Этому студенту нужно (надо) работать. This student has to work.
If you have a general rule or situation in mind, there is no dative complement.
Где здесь можно купить сувениры?
Надо платить в кассу?
The word [можно] is almost always used without a dative complement, unless the dative "subject" would not be understood in context
Можно пойти в кино? May I (or we) go to the movies?
Note the structure used in these sentences.
кому/person in the dative case/nothing + надо/ нужно/ можно + infinitive
No exercises today, just grammar point. Mostly because it took me long enough to actually read and comprehend the grammar point. I have no idea why I'm so damn sleepy, but I really am. It's irksome. I want to go back to bed, I really, really want to go back to bed. Instead I'm going to work. Hopefully it'll be a slow day, but there's no real guarantee of that. Especially not with a coupon that just went out, and especially not when it's a Friday and for whatever reason people seem to go nuts on Fridays.
On the plus side, it looks like there's a sale on at the store I have a gift card to, so I should be able to get cheaper jeans and blouses and whatever else I wind up deciding I need. This is good.
Ugh. Pretend I said something more eloquent here, I'm going to get ready to go to work and try not to fall asleep.
Этому студенту нужно (надо) работать. This student has to work.
If you have a general rule or situation in mind, there is no dative complement.
Где здесь можно купить сувениры?
Надо платить в кассу?
The word [можно] is almost always used without a dative complement, unless the dative "subject" would not be understood in context
Можно пойти в кино? May I (or we) go to the movies?
Note the structure used in these sentences.
кому/person in the dative case/nothing + надо/ нужно/ можно + infinitive
No exercises today, just grammar point. Mostly because it took me long enough to actually read and comprehend the grammar point. I have no idea why I'm so damn sleepy, but I really am. It's irksome. I want to go back to bed, I really, really want to go back to bed. Instead I'm going to work. Hopefully it'll be a slow day, but there's no real guarantee of that. Especially not with a coupon that just went out, and especially not when it's a Friday and for whatever reason people seem to go nuts on Fridays.
On the plus side, it looks like there's a sale on at the store I have a gift card to, so I should be able to get cheaper jeans and blouses and whatever else I wind up deciding I need. This is good.
Ugh. Pretend I said something more eloquent here, I'm going to get ready to go to work and try not to fall asleep.