the verb shows agreement in gender and number with the direct object (or, takes the default masculine when no object is present), but when the subject is in the nominative case, the verb shows agreement with the nominative subject of the sentence, also, the copula agrees with the nominative subject in its conjugation and it cannot be restricted to the third person. An example showing the equivalency of the usage of dative and nominative pronouns in the passive construction is below: Notes: गया (gəyɑ) & गयी (gəyi) are the singular masculine and feminine forms of the perfective participle of the light-verb जाना (jɑnɑ) [to go] which is used for passive voice construction. मारा (mɑɾɑ) is the perfective participle of the verb मारना (mɑɾnɑ) [to kill]. Spanish A number of verbs in Spanish employ a dative construction. Many of these verbs express psychological states; the most common one is gustar, which is equivalent to English like (but syntactically functions like be pleasant to). The verb agrees with the formal/morphological subject, but the subject is usually placed after the verb instead of before, as usual. The dative construction requires a clitic pronoun; if the dative argument is a full noun phrase or needs to be explicitly stated, it is shown by a phrase with the preposition a. Me gusta el verano. ("I like the summer") A mí me gusta más la primavera. ("[As for me,] I like the spring better") A Juan le gustan las rubias. ("Juan likes blondes") A ella le gustas. ("She likes you") Other verbs which show this pattern are apasionar ("to be passionate about"), antojarse ("to have a feeling for"), encantar ("to adore"), faltar ("to be lacking"), quedar ("to fall") and sobrar ("to be left"). Serbo-Croatian In Serbo-Croatian (as in other Slavic languages), the dative construction is often used, mostly in the same manner as in German: Some verbs, like nedostajati ("lack") use dative constructions: Georgian dative construction The dative construction is very common in Georgian. The dative construction of Georgian differs somewhat from German, in that the dative case agrees with a certain person marking on the verb. The dative construction occurs in the perfect (not perfective) tense of transitive verbs and in all the tenses of some verbs, such as "to want", "to have", "to forget" and "to remember". These verbs are also called "indirect verbs" by some generativists. Compare: ("children are drinking water") imperfective aspect-present