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1. (adj.) genitive
of or designating a grammatical case typically indicating possession, measure, origin, or other close association, as painter's, week's, author's, and women's in the painter's brush, a week's pay, the author's book, and
women's colleges.
2. genitive
pertaining to a construction similar to such a case in function or meaning, esp. in English a prepositional phrase with of, as in
the home of the mayor.
3. (n.) genitive
the genitive case.
4. genitive
a word or other form in the genitive case.
5. genitive
a construction expressing a relationship usu. indicated by the genitive case.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < ML genitīvus= L genit(us), ptp. of gignere to beget +-īvus -ive)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive case
the case expressing ownership
2. (adj) possessive, genitive
serving to express or indicate possession
"possessive pronouns"; "the genitive endings"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) Genitive
of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English
2. (noun) Genitive
the genitive case
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Sense: (the case or form of) a noun, pronoun etc which shows possession
In John's hat, `John's' is in the genitive / is a genitive; (also adjective) the genitive case.
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 Afrikaans: genitief |
 Arabic: حالة المُلْكِيَّه |
 Bulgarian: родителен падеж |
 Brazilian: genitivo |
 Czech: genitiv; genitivní |
 German: der Genitiv |
 Danish: genitiv; ejefald |
 Greek: γενική (γραμμ.) |
 Spanish: genitivo |
 Estonian: omastav |
 Farsi: حالت ملکی |
 Finnish: genetiivi |
 French: génitif |
 Hebrew: של יחס הקניין |
 Hindi: सम्बन्ध कारक |
 Croatian: genitiv |
 Hungarian: birtokos eset |
 Indonesian: genitif |
 Icelandic: eignarfall |
 Italian: genitivo |
 Japanese: 所有格 |
 Korean: 속격, 제2격 |
 Lithuanian: kilmininkas |
 Latvian: ģenitīvs; ģenitīva- |
 Malay: genetif |
 Dutch: genitief |
 Norwegian: genitiv, eieform |
 Polish: dopełniacz |
 Persian: حالت ملکی |
 Pashto: (ګر)، مضاف اليه، اضافي حا |
 Portuguese: genitivo |
 Romanian: genitiv |
 Russian: родительный падеж |
 Slovak: genitív; genitívny |
 Slovenian: rodilnik; rodilniški |
 Serbian: genitiv |
 Swedish: genitiv |
 Thai: คำแสดงความเป็นเจ้าของ |
 Turkish: ...-in hali, iyelik hali |
 Taiwanese: 所有格 |
 Ukrainian: родовий відмінок |
 Urdu: اسم یا ضمیر کی وہ حالت جو |
 Vietnamese: (ngôn ngữ học) cách sở hữ |
 Chinese: 所有格 |
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