A possessive or ktetic form (abbreviated POS or POSS; from Latin: possessivus; Ancient Greek: κτητικός, romanized: ktētikós) is a word or grammatical construction...
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Apostrophe (redirect from Possessive apostrophe)
more letters, e.g. the contraction of "do not" to "don't" The marking of possessive case of nouns (as in "the eagle's feathers", "in one month's time", "the...
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In linguistics, a possessive affix (from Latin: affixum possessivum) is an affix (usually suffix or prefix) attached to a noun to indicate its possessor...
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In English, possessive words or phrases exist for nouns and most pronouns, as well as some noun phrases. These can play the roles of determiners (also...
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Possessive determiners are determiners which express possession. Some traditional grammars of English refer to them as possessive adjectives, though they...
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Genitive case (section Possessives)
the modifying noun) in the construct state. Possessive grammatical constructions, including the possessive case, may be regarded as subsets of the genitive...
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language has different ways of expressing the possessive relation. There are several "verbal possessive" forms based on verbs with the sense of "to possess"...
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grammatical possessives Possessive case, a grammatical case used in possessive constructions in some languages Possessive determiner (or possessive adjective)...
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English grammar, a pronoun has a possessive antecedent if its antecedent (the noun that it refers to) appears in the possessive case; for example, in the following...
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Possession (linguistics) (redirect from Possessive construction)
juxtaposition of nouns, possessive case, possessed case, construct state (as in Arabic and Nêlêmwa), or adpositions (possessive suffixes, possessive adjectives)....
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Dative case (redirect from Possessive dative)
DAT > շանս (to my dog) with 1st person possessive article DAT > շանդ (to your dog) with 2nd person possessive article There is a general tendency to view...
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Personal pronouns in Portuguese (redirect from Portuguese possessive)
The Portuguese personal pronouns and possessives display a higher degree of inflection than other parts of speech. Personal pronouns have distinct forms...
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Inalienable possession (redirect from Inalienable possessive)
most common kind of binary possessive class system, but it is not the only one. Some languages have more than two possessive classes. In Papua New Guinea...
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"Crazy Possessive", also known as "Crazy Possessive (I'll Muck You Up)" or "Crazy Possessive (I'll Fuck You Up)", is the first single off Kaci Battaglia's...
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Posesif (redirect from Possessive (film))
Posesif (lit. 'Possessive') is a 2017 Indonesian psychological drama film directed by Edwin and written by Gina S. Noer, starring Putri Marino and Adipati...
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Obsessive love disorder (redirect from Possessive love)
Obsessive love disorder (OLD) is a proposed condition in which one person feels an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess and protect another person...
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English personal pronouns (redirect from Possessive me)
one, which has the reflexive oneself (the possessive form is written one's, like a regular English possessive); and the interrogative and relative pronoun...
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either by the possessive enclitic -s (also traditionally called a genitive suffix), or by the preposition of. Historically the -s possessive has been used...
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"Possessive Love" is a song by American singer Marilyn Martin, released by Atlantic in February 1988 as the lead single from her second studio album, This...
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Possessory credit (redirect from Possessive credit)
A possessory credit in filmmaking is the use of a film credit which gives primary artistic recognition to a single person, usually (but not always) the...
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often associated with possessive forms. English has two sets of such forms: the possessive determiners (also called possessive adjectives) my, your, his...
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Pronoun (section Personal and possessive)
which can be either singular or plural. Sub-types include personal and possessive pronouns, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, relative...
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Determiner (section Possessive determiner)
in English include articles (the and a), demonstratives (this, that), possessive determiners (my, their), and quantifiers (many, both). Not all languages...
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Veraʼa there are two types of possessive constructions recorded, that of direct possessive constructions and indirect possessive constructions.: 119 Similar...
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C. B. Macpherson (redirect from Possessive individualism)
Macpherson's best-known contribution to political philosophy is the theory of "possessive individualism", in which an individual is conceived as the sole proprietor...
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Jesus (name) (redirect from Possessive of Jesus)
Jesus (/ˈdʒiːzəs/) is a masculine given name derived from Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς; Iesus in Classical Latin) the Ancient Greek form of the Hebrew name Yeshua (ישוע)...
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Indefinite pronoun (section Possessive forms)
above have possessive forms. These are made as for nouns, by adding 's or just an apostrophe following a plural -s (see English possessive). The most...
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article-like word (kein-), and the adjectival possessive pronouns (alias: possessive adjectives, possessive determiners), mein- (my), dein- (your (singular))...
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Hindi pronouns (section Possessive pronouns)
The personal pronouns and possessives in Modern Standard Hindi of the Hindustani language display a higher degree of inflection than other parts of speech...
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Tongan language (section Possessive pronouns)
stronger emphasis on the possessor than the possessive pronouns do the use of the adverbial possessives is rare Examples of use: ko hono valá: it is...
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