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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
/ 藞d蕭蓻n瑟t瑟v; 藢d蕭蓻n瑟藞ta瑟v蓹l /
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
Derived Forms
- 藢驳别苍颈藞迟颈惫补濒濒测, adverb
- genitival, adjective
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
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of genitive1
Example Sentences
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?
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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