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genitive

[ jen-i-tiv ]

adjective

  1. (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.
  2. noting an affix or other element characteristic of this case, or a word containing such an element.
  3. similar to such a case form in function or meaning.


noun

  1. the genitive case.
  2. a word in the genitive case.
  3. a construction noting this case or the relationship usually expressed by it.

genitive

/ 藞d蕭蓻n瑟t瑟v; 藢d蕭蓻n瑟藞ta瑟v蓹l /

adjective

  1. 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
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

    1. the genitive case
    2. a word or speech element in this case
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藢驳别苍颈藞迟颈惫补濒濒测, adverb
  • genitival, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 驳别苍路颈路迟颈路惫补濒 [jen-i-, tahy, -v, uh, l], adjective
  • 驳别苍顎卛路迟颈顎僾补濒路濒测 adverb
  • 耻苍路驳别苍顎僫路迟颈惫别 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of genitive1

1350鈥1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin 驳别苍颈迟墨惫耻蝉, equivalent to genit ( us ) (past participle of gignere to beget) + -墨惫耻蝉 -ive
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of genitive1

C14: from Latin 驳别苍别迟墨惫耻蝉 relating to birth, from gignere to produce
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Example Sentences

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At this point you may be wondering: What鈥檚 with 鈥済enitive鈥? Isn鈥檛 that just what we were taught is the possessive?

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Similarly, names unable to accommodate the endings required by the nominative, accusative, genitive and dative cases used in Icelandic are also routinely turned down.

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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.

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The genitive you are mine / is a phrase I cherished only when I'd moved on / and couldn't use it.

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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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