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genitive
[jen-i-tiv]
adjective
(in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
noting an affix or other element characteristic of this case, or a word containing such an element.
similar to such a case form in function or meaning.
noun
the genitive case.
a word in the genitive case.
a construction noting this case or the relationship usually expressed by it.
genitive
/ ˈdʒɛnɪtɪv, ˌdʒɛnɪˈtaɪvəl /
adjective
denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in inflected languages used to indicate a relation of ownership or association, usually translated by English of
noun
the genitive case
a word or speech element in this case
Other Word Forms
- genitival adjective
- genitivally adverb
- ungenitive adjective
- ˌԾˈپ adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of genitive1
Example Sentences
But that has nothing to do with the antecedent being in the genitive case; it’s just as much of a problem in Sophie and her mother think she’s fat.
Similarly, names unable to accommodate the endings required by the nominative, accusative, genitive and dative cases used in Icelandic are also routinely turned down.
During the Force Majeure show, Izzard gets to grips with German sentence structure and declensions, earning knowing applause from the Berlin crowd for his perfect use of the fiendishly tricky genitive case at one stage.
The genitive you are mine / is a phrase I cherished only when I'd moved on / and couldn't use it.
Who cares, so far as the matter of it is concerned, whether we say hominum or hominorum in the genitive plural, interesting as the fact may be for the philologist?
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