GENITIVE

genitive

Noun

  1. An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.
  2. A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.


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