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...
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three cases, which are simplified forms of the nominative, accusative (including functions formerly handled by the dative) and genitive cases. They are...
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Possessive (redirect from Possesive case)
grammatical case (the possessive case), although they are also sometimes considered to represent the genitive case, or are not assigned to any case, depending...
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adjectives ending in -s, which is called the partitive case. This case is derived from the genitive case in the older declension system and is used after words...
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the ergative-genitive case (abbreviated EGN) is a grammatical case which combines the senses of the ergative case and the genitive case, transmitting...
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German declension (redirect from German cases)
the end in the singular genitive, e.g. der Name, des Namens, and otherwise behave exactly like weak nouns. The genitive case of other nouns of masculine...
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English possessive (redirect from Saxon genitive)
stated that the possessives represent a grammatical case, called the genitive or possessive case; however, some linguists do not accept this view and...
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also uses possessive affixes together with the genitive case häne/n talo/nsa = 'her/his house(s)' This case marks direct objects. The accusative indicates...
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accusative case to the special case of personal pronouns and kuka/ken. This grammar considers other total objects as being in the nominative or genitive case. The...
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Mongolian language (section Genitive case)
sometimes has to take accusative or genitive case. There is marginal occurrence of subjects taking ablative case as well. Subjects of attributive clauses...
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objective case is then used for the oblique case, which covers the roles of accusative, dative and objects of a preposition. The genitive case is then usually...
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assignment". The inanimate pronouns remain the same in the objective case. The genitive case is used to show possession, such as "Where is your coat?" or "Let's...
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Katla language (section Genitive case)
this rule and therefore change in their plural form. In some cases Katla places the genitive after the subject, as in other Sudanese languages: ‚u gbalana‘...
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Romanian grammar (section Genitive case)
morphological case differentiation in nouns. Nevertheless, declensions have been reduced to only three forms (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative, and...
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Construct state (redirect from Construct case)
state when they are modified by another noun in a genitive construction. That differs from the genitive case of European languages in that it is the head (modified)...
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trigger prepositional case marking, and a small group of prepositions which are termed compound mark their objects with genitive case, these prepositions...
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Melo language (section Genitive case)
There are eight cases in Malo[clarification needed]. Nominative Accusative Dative Genitive Instrumental Commutative Ablative Nominative case has <i> and <a>...
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the nominative case and "ihn" in accusative. Genitive personal pronouns (not to be confused with other instances of the genitive case such as "des"—see...
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well as of the genitive case after prepositions, while her also includes the genitive case. This conflated form is called the oblique case or the object...
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Turkish grammar (section Genitive case)
and an anomalous genitive. All personal pronouns aside from onlar form their instrumental with the genitive form. The absolute case is generally needed...
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locative case merged into other cases (often genitive or dative) in form and/or function, but some daughter languages retained it as a distinct case. It is...
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Look up adverbial genitive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In grammar, an adverbial genitive is a noun declined in the genitive case that functions as...
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ʾIʿrab (section Genitive case)
-an. The genitive case (al-majrūr, ٱلْمَجْرُورُ) Objects of prepositions. The second, third, fourth, etc. term of an iḍāfah (إِضَافَةٌ genitive construction)...
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grammatical relationships except the genitive case of possession (in standard English) and a non-disjunctive nominative case as the subject. It may also be...
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category of case (specifically case role) is related to morphological case. Morphological case (such as accusative, ergative, dative, genitive, and sometimes...
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Lardil language (section Genitive case)
horse'). On pronouns, for which case-marking is irregular, Locative case is realized via 'double-expression' of Genitive case: ngada 'I' > ngithun 'I(gen)...
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Latin declension (redirect from History of the Latin case system)
cases in this order: casus sunt sex: nominativus, genetivus, dativus, accusativus, vocativus, ablativus. "There are six cases: nominative, genitive,...
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thereafter with some of its functions taken by the genitive and others by the dative. The genitive case with the prepositions ἀπό apó 'away from' and ἐκ/ἐξ...
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list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an...
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Archaic Dutch declension (section Genitive)
productive. One exception is the genitive case, which is still productive to a certain extent. Although in the spoken language the case system was probably in a...
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