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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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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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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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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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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the ending -l is added to the genitive case, e.g. laud (table) - laual (on the table). Besides the meaning "on", this case is also used to indicate ownership...
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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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animates carry a marker in this case. The PIE accusative case has nearly eroded in Russian, merging with the genitive or the nominative in most declensions...
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In grammar, a genitive construction or genitival construction is a type of grammatical construction used to express a relation between two nouns such as...
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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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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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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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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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Arabic nouns and adjectives (section Genitive case)
Arabic are declined according to the following properties: Case (حَالَةٌ ḥāla) (nominative, genitive, and accusative) State (indefinite, definite or construct)...
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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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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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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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nouns. This syncretism with the genitive is commonly referred to as the relative case. Nez Perce has a three-way nominal case system with both ergative (-nim)...
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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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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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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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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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the genitive case, "of operating"; gerunds can never be pluralised in Latin, as opposed to gerundives. When a noun with an attribute in the genitive is...
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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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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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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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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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Suffixaufnahme (redirect from Case stacking)
resumption"), also known as case stacking, is a linguistic phenomenon used in forming a genitive construction, whereby prototypically a genitive noun agrees with...
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