genitive

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English

Definitions

noun

(grammar) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.
(grammar) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.

adjective

(grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses a quality, origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.

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Synonyms

possessive case genitive case possessive adnominal epexegetical partitive genitival possessival essive ornative absolutive nominatival proprietive illative invertive allative

Associated

dative vocative ablative locative accusative nominative declension adverbial enclitic plural

Rhymes

tentative representative lenitive splenitive benet of bennet of bennett of genet of rennet of senate of

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