genitive - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • possession: Female names are a case, the genitive of possession.

Adjective modifier

  • partitive: The noun being expressed in the context, or understood from it; also when followed by a temporal or partitive genitive.
  • epexegetical: The author is fond of synonyms and epexegetical genitives ( Goguel ).

Modifies a noun

  • case: If Polly is capable of coping with the genitive case she knows more than a little!
  • form: A discussion of the expansion of the use of the genitive case form for the accusative in the relative pronoun koji.
  • marker: POS the possessive or genitive marker ' s or ' .
  • phrase: You do not need an apostrophe when using a genitive phrase.
  • qeou=: The second formula consists of an anarthrous ui(o/j followed by the articular genitive tou= qeou=.
  • attribute: As in the other NIA languages, the genitive attribute continued to agree with its head.

Used with adjective complement

  • label: If the adjective takes only genitive, the complement is labeled genitive, even when acc/gen/dat ambiguous.

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