Definitions for genitive case
gen·i·tive case

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1. genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive casenoun

   the case expressing ownership

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1. genitive casenoun

   Noun case used to express some relationship such as possession or origin. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition "of."

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1. Genitive case

   In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated gen) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun. A genitive can also serve purposes indicating other relationships. For example, some verbs may feature arguments in the genitive case; and the genitive case may also have adverbial uses (see adverbial genitive). Genitive construction includes the genitive case, but is a broader category. Placing a modifying noun in the genitive case is one way of indicating that it is related to a head noun, in a genitive construction. However, there are other ways to indicate a genitive construction. For example, many Afroasiatic languages place the head noun (rather than the modifying noun) in the construct state. Possessive grammatical constructions, including the possessive case, may be regarded as a subset of genitive construction. For example, the genitive construction "pack of dogs" is similar, but not identical in meaning to the possessive case "dogs' pack" (and neither of these is entirely interchangeable with "dog pack", which is neither genitive nor possessive). Modern English is an example of a language that has a possessive case rather than a conventional genitive case. That is, Modern English indicates a genitive construction with either the possessive clitic suffix "-'s", or a prepositional genitive construction such as "x of y". However, some irregular English pronouns do have possessive forms which may more commonly be described as genitive (see English possessive). The names of the astronomical constellations have genitive forms which are used in star names, for example the star Mintaka in the constellation Orion (genitive Orionis) is also known as Delta Orionis or 34 Orionis. Many languages have a genitive case, including Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, German, Greek, Gothic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Nepali, Romanian, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Swedish, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish and all Slavic languages except Bulgarian and Macedonian.

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1. genitive case

   The genitive case is a grammatical term primarily used in the study of languages with complex grammatical structures, such as Latin, Greek, German, and Russian. It denotes a word that modifies another word, most often conveying a relationship of possession, origin, or composition. The genitive case is used to indicate 'of or belonging to' something or someone. In English, it's typically formed by adding " 's " or " ' " to nouns or pronouns (eg. Mary's book, or children's toys), or using prepositions like "of" (eg. the color of the sky).

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1. Genitive case

   In grammar, genitive is the grammatical case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun; however, it can also indicate various other relationships than possession: certain verbs may take arguments in the genitive case, and it may have adverbial uses. Placing the modifying noun in the genitive case is one way to indicate that two nouns are related in a genitive construction. Modern English typically does not morphologically mark nouns for a genitive case in order to indicate a genitive construction; instead, it uses either the 's clitic or a preposition. However, the personal pronouns do have distinct possessive forms. There are various other ways to indicate a genitive construction, as well. For example, many Afroasiatic languages place the head noun in the construct state. Depending on the language, specific varieties of genitive-noun–main-noun relationships may include: ⁕possession: ⁕inalienable possession alienable possession relationship indicated by the noun being modified

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1. • Oblique Case

How to pronounce genitive case?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of genitive case in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of genitive case in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
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3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive_Case
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5. ^ Wikidata
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