Study Resource: Lists of German verbs, prepositions, and adjectives that take dative objects

to cancel on

to resemble

to answer

to ambush

to help out

to avoid

to order

to run into

to support

to join

to attend

to thank

to serve

to threaten

to come into mind

to drive towards

to come to meet

to accommodate

to counter

to slip away from

to escape

to match

to stem from

to stem from

to miss, do not have

to follow

to cheat on

to deserve

to like, please

to face

to obey

to belong to

to succeed

to suffice

to believe

to turn out well

to congratulate

to dread

to do good

to help

to follow around

to run after

to impress

to dismiss

to feel sorry for

to dislike

to mistrust

to emulate

to pursue

to follow around

to run after

to stalk

to be of use

to behoove

to fit

to stem from

to burst

to advise

to suffice

to harm

to taste

to flatter

to sense

to approach

to suit

to forgive

to trust

to forgive

to hurt

to give way to

to befall

to contradict

to go against

to be in store for

to watch

to listen to

to hail

to call out to

to watch

to pester

to agree with

to preempt

to assign

to give (a task) to

to answer

to teach

to prove

to bring

to recommend

to educe from

to remove

to snatch from

to explain

to allow

to explain to

to enable to do

to bestow on

to tell

to give

to permit

to bequeath to

to buy

to pinch/steal

to lend

to deliver

to do for

to let know

to take away from

to reveal

to open for

to present

to rob of

to hand

to say

to give as a present

to send

to close for

to write

to send

to steal

to hand over

to relinquish

to bestow on

to transfer money to

to leave (a rest) for

to administer

to prohibit

to bequeath to

to conceal

to sell

to keep secret from

to promise

to present

to read to

to tell to do

to play to

to feign to

to feign to

to take away

to wish

to show

to attribute

to strip of,
to deprive

to deny

to entrust with

to lend

to bestow on

to lend

to divest of

to spare

to lend

to bestow on

to lend

to divest of

to spare

to grant

to lend

to begrudge

to bequeath to

to refuse

to send to

to pass (a ball) to

to apportion to

from, off, ex

from, out of

to entrust with

at, by

within
(a certain period of time)

thanks to

against

along

according to,
in accordance with,
as per

far from

opposite

according to,
in line with

true to,
in accordance with

equal to

as per,
by,
according to

minus

with

together with,
along with

after,
towards,
following,
according to

can follow the noun if it means "according to"

near,
close to

in addition to

above,
due to

also used with the genitive, old language

per

also used with the accusative

plus

also used with the genitive or accusative

together with,
along with

in addition to

instead of

only colloquially, otherwise requires the dative

despite,
in spite of

only southern German,
otherwise requires the genitive

from, by

during,
while,
whereas

only colloquially, otherwise requires the dative

because of,
due to

only colloquially, otherwise requires the dative

to, towards

according to

always follows the noun

for the sake of

always follows the noun

against

always follows the noun

similar

innate

pleasant

understandable

of help

known

aware

angry

thankful

foreign

measure up to

gleich

clear

boring

a burden

possible

close to (emotionally)

new

useful

embarrassing

alright

damaging

feel bad

owe

understandable

important

welcome

too dangerous

too easy

too difficult

repulsive