This is the 988th most frequent Latvian word.
dažiem
"Dažiem" means "to some" or "for some" in English.
Here, 'dažiem' is used in its dative case form, signifying the indirect object ('to some students').
Es devu grāmatu dažiem skolēniem.
I gave the book to some students.
In this sentence, 'dažiem' is the dative form and details 'to some people' as those experiencing a preference.
Dažiem cilvēkiem patīk brīvā daba.
Some people like nature.
Here, 'dažiem' is within a prepositional phrase ('with some friends') showing its dative case usage in Latvian.