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genitive
adjective
Gram. designating, of, or in a relational case typically expressing possession, source, or a partitive concept
noun
- the genitive case: expressed by inflection in languages such as Latin and either by an analytical construction or by inflection in English (Ex.: the sons of the queen; the queen's sons)
- a word or phrase in this case
See genitive in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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