accusative and dative verbs in the same sentence

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Is it possible that a sentence can contain both an accusative and a dative verb at the same time and if so what case does the subject take?

2

I think you mean a verb governing the accusative and one governing the dative. You can have a sequence of many verbs having the same subject, if that is what you mean. The subject, unless it is an accusative + infinitive, is always in the nominative case.

3

I goofed. I meant to ask in what case would the direct object be in a sentence with both accusative and dative verbs?

4

You would put one in the accusative and one in the dative. If they happen to be the same, you would use a demonstrative pronoun for one.

5

Hi SPQR,

Are you able to provide the sentence that you are reading or trying to construct? Or perhaps the verb in question? I think that this would help us to help you.

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I guess a sentence like “Litterās dīligō eīsque studeō” would fit.

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I went back and looked at the two verbs more closely and it turns out that the one verb I thought takes an accusative object actually takes a dative object. So both verbs are dative verbs and everything works out fine. I guess I was in too big a hurry.