"Ĉu mi povas fidi al ŝi?"
Translation:Can I trust her?
September 1, 2015
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I wouldn't be surprised if this was a calque on German jemandem vertrauen, which uses the dative case.
A number of oddities (from the point of view of English speakers) are because a given construction was based on Polish or Russian or German or another language that Zamenhof spoke.
(For example, old Esperanto used elrigardi for "to look = to have a certain appearance", as in "she looked rich" -- presumably a calque of German aussehen. Nowadays, aspekti is the usual word for this meaning.)