单词 | genitive case |
释义 | > as lemmasgenitive case genitive case n. (in inflected languages) a case of nouns and pronouns, and of words in grammatical agreement with them, the typical function of which is to indicate that the person or thing denoted by the word is related to another as source, possessor, or the like; (also in uninflected languages) a word or word form having a similar possessive function (cf. possessive case n. at possessive adj. 1).In English corresponding to of, from, and other prepositions, and to the possessive apostrophe or suffix 's. In different languages the genitive case is also employed in a variety of idiomatic usages.extracted from genitiveadj.n.< as lemmas |
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