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单词 genitivally
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
gen•i•tive /ˈdʒɛnɪtɪv/USA pronunciation  adj. 
  1. Grammarof or naming a grammatical form that indicates possession, measure, origin, or other close association, such as painter's, in the painter's brush;
    week's,
    as in a week's pay;
    author's,
    as in the author's book;
    and women's, as in women's colleges.

n. [countable* usually singular;
the + ~]
  1. Grammarthe genitive case;
    a word or form in this case:The genitive of the pronoun me is my.
See -gen-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
gen•i•tive  ( jeni tiv),USA pronunciation [Gram.]
adj. 
  1. Grammar(in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
  2. Grammarnoting an affix or other element characteristic of this case, or a word containing such an element.
  3. Grammarsimilar to such a case form in function or meaning.

n. 
  1. Grammarthe genitive case.
  2. Grammara word in the genitive case.
  3. Grammara construction noting this case or the relationship usually expressed by it. Cf. possessive.
  • Medieval Latin genitīvus, equivalent. to genit(us) (past participle of gignere to beget) + -īvus -ive
  • 1350–1400; Middle English
gen•i•ti•val  ( jen′i tīvəl),USA pronunciation adj.  gen′i•tival•ly, adv. 

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