genitive 
genitive
Definition
geni·tive (jen′i tiv)
adjective
Gram. designating, of, or in a relational case typically expressing possession, source, or a partitive concept
Etymology: ME genitif < OFr < L (casus) genitivus, lit., (case) of orig. < genitus (see genital): mistransl. < Gr genikē, generic (case), (case) of genus < Gr genos, genus
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
genitive
Usage Examples
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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