- In grammar, the
genitive case (abbreviated gen) is the
grammatical case that
marks a word,
usually a noun, as
modifying another word, also
usually a noun—thus...
-
three numbers: singular, dual, and plural; and
seven cases: nominative,
genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative. The vocative...
- nominative,
accusative (including
functions formerly handled by the dative) and
genitive cases. They are used with
personal pronouns:
subjective case (I, you, he...
- an
apostrophe to an
existing s. This form is
sometimes called the
Saxon genitive,
reflecting the suffix's
derivation from Old English.
Personal pronouns...
- of
genitive. For example, the
genitive construction "speed of the car" is
equivalent to the
possessive form "the car's speed". However, the
genitive construction...
- and
second noun declensions, but
there are differences; for
example the
genitive singular ends in -īus or -ius
instead of -ī or -ae. The
cardinal numbers...
- and the owner's
gender for the
genitive. Dative: Ich gebe die
Karten dem Mann – I give the
cards to the man.
Genitive: Die
Entwicklung unseres Dorfes –...
- In grammar, a
genitive construction or
genitival construction is a type of
grammatical construction used to
express a
relation between two
nouns such as...
-
genitive the second, and so on. The
nouns are
usually listed and
sorted by
their nominative singular form, but
declension is
defined by the
genitive singular...
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include nouns like θεᾱ́ ("a goddess"), and the
genitive plural of first-declension
nouns and the
genitive singular of
masculine first-declension nouns....
