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genitive case

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genitivecase (pluralgenitive cases)

Examples
  • John’s milkJohn’s is in the genitive (and in thepossessive) case.
  • glass of milkmilk is in the genitive (but not in the possessive) case.
  1. (grammar) Thegrammatical case, chieflyapplicable tonouns,used toexpress arelationship oforigin orpossession. Itcorrespondsroughly to theEnglishprepositionof and thesuffix-'s.
    Synonym:genitive
    • 1945,E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, inThe Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire:Clarendon Press,→OCLC, page xiv:
      In very early times a man seems to have been known by a single name together with his father's name in thegenitive case, e.g.Marcus Marci;[]

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grammatical case used to express a relationship of origin or possession

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