Dativus ethicus
The verdict
“Dativus ethicus” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: einer der freien Dative; er drückt die persönliche Anteilnahme des Sprechers/der Sprecher aus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dativus ethicus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [daˌtiːvʊs ˈʔeːtikʊs] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dativus ethicus” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Dativus ethicus is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [daˌtiːvʊs ˈʔeːtikʊs]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "einer der freien Dative; er drückt die persönliche Anteilnahme des Sprechers/der Sprecher aus.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dativus ethicus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Dativus ethicus, spelled D-A-T-I-V-U-S- -E-T-H-I-C-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einer der freien Dative; er drückt die persönliche Anteilnahme des Sprechers/der Sprecher aus.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-A-T-I-V-U-S- -E-T-H-I-C-U-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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