GENITIVECASE

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 .

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genitive case

Noun

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


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