possessiver Dativ
The verdict
“possessiver Dativ” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Wortgruppe oder Wort im Dativ, die/das den Besitz/die Zugehörigkeit anzeigt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | possessiver Dativ |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [pɔsɛˌsiːvɐ ˈdaːtiːf] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “possessiver Dativ” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for possessiver Dativ is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɔsɛˌsiːvɐ ˈdaːtiːf]. 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: "Wortgruppe oder Wort im Dativ, die/das den Besitz/die Zugehörigkeit anzeigt".
No misspelling variants are generated for possessiver Dativ 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 possessiver Dativ, spelled P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-V-E-R- -D-A-T-I-V, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Wortgruppe oder Wort im Dativ, die/das den Besitz/die Zugehörigkeit anzeigt
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Using “possessiver Dativ”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-V-E-R- -D-A-T-I-V — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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