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Definition of genitive in English: genitiveadjective ˈdʒɛnɪtɪvˈdʒɛnədɪv Grammar Relating to or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns (and words in grammatical agreement with them) indicating possession or close association. Example sentencesExamples - The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
- Since every regular noun has a genitive form, every trademark that has the form of a singular noun has a genitive form too.
- The only noun inflexion preserved in Modern English is the possessive ending ‘s’ which is a survival of the common Germanic masculine singular genitive case ending.
- Write in columns the nominative singular, genitive plural, gender, and meaning of: - operibus, principe, imperatori, genere, apro, nivem, vires, frondi, muri.
- Meanwhile the Malays and Chinese had managed to build impressive civilisations without so much as a past tense, let alone a subjunctive, or genitive plural.
noun ˈdʒɛnɪtɪvˈdʒɛnədɪv Grammar 1A word in the genitive case. Example sentencesExamples - In phrases, adjectives and genitives generally precede nouns: micel fld ‘a great flood;’ Westseaxna cyning ‘king of the West Saxons.’
- Attributive genitives are linked to the nouns they qualify by a system of connective particles.
- 1.1the genitive The genitive case.
Example sentencesExamples - The genitive also expresses possession: ‘whose house is this?’
- Such instances are common in Arabic and one finds many examples in which an accusative of state occurs from a governed noun in the genitive.
- Surnames were frequently created out of the Latin genitive of some ancestor's given name.
- As students of the language may recall, German has four cases - nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative - which see words change in order to explain their relationship to each other.
- Why do some verbs take the genitive, not the accusative?
Derivatives adjective dʒɛnɪˈtʌɪv(ə)lˌdʒɛnəˈtaɪv(ə)l Grammar Relating to the genitive case. Example sentencesExamples - As a Semitic construct, the genitival expression ‘son of X’ in the Bible can grammatically denote the member of the group or class.
- ‘Each’ and ‘some’ are always the first noun in the genitival phrase.
- The genitival relationship between two nouns is marked by an initial raised H tone on the second noun.
adverb dʒɛnɪˈtʌɪvəliˌdʒɛnəˈtaɪvəli Grammar In Finwe Míriello ‘of Finwe and Míriel’ only the last name is declined, although both genitivally modify Namna ‘Statute’. He believes that the bit of unreferenced linguistic code ‘being’ is something that can be talked about genitivally as if it belongs in some way to the entity.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French genitif, -ive or Latin genitivus (casus) '(case) of production or origin', from gignere 'beget'. Definition of genitive in US English: genitiveadjectiveˈdʒɛnədɪvˈjenədiv Grammar Relating to or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns (and words in grammatical agreement with them) indicating possession or close association. Example sentencesExamples - Since every regular noun has a genitive form, every trademark that has the form of a singular noun has a genitive form too.
- The only noun inflexion preserved in Modern English is the possessive ending ‘s’ which is a survival of the common Germanic masculine singular genitive case ending.
- Write in columns the nominative singular, genitive plural, gender, and meaning of: - operibus, principe, imperatori, genere, apro, nivem, vires, frondi, muri.
- The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
- Meanwhile the Malays and Chinese had managed to build impressive civilisations without so much as a past tense, let alone a subjunctive, or genitive plural.
nounˈdʒɛnədɪvˈjenədiv Grammar 1A word in the genitive case. Example sentencesExamples - Attributive genitives are linked to the nouns they qualify by a system of connective particles.
- In phrases, adjectives and genitives generally precede nouns: micel fld ‘a great flood;’ Westseaxna cyning ‘king of the West Saxons.’
- 1.1the genitive The genitive case.
Example sentencesExamples - As students of the language may recall, German has four cases - nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative - which see words change in order to explain their relationship to each other.
- Such instances are common in Arabic and one finds many examples in which an accusative of state occurs from a governed noun in the genitive.
- Why do some verbs take the genitive, not the accusative?
- Surnames were frequently created out of the Latin genitive of some ancestor's given name.
- The genitive also expresses possession: ‘whose house is this?’
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French genitif, -ive or Latin genitivus (casus) ‘(case) of production or origin’, from gignere ‘beget’. |