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-'s
-'ssuff. Used to form the possessive case of singular nouns, plural nouns that do not end in s, certain pronouns, and phrases that function as nouns or pronouns: nation's; women's; another's; the girl next door's cat.
[Middle English -s, -es, from Old English -es, genitive sing. suff.]-'s suffix 1. forming the possessive singular of nouns and some pronouns: man's; one's. 2. forming the possessive plural of nouns whose plurals do not end in -s: children's. 3. forming the plural of numbers, letters, or symbols: 20's; p's and q's. 4. informal contraction of is or has: he's here; John's coming; it's gone. 5. informal contraction of us with let: let's. 6. informal contraction of does in some questions: where's he live?; what's he do?. [senses 1, 2: assimilated contraction from Middle English -es, from Old English, masculine and neuter genitive singular; sense 3, equivalent to -s1] |