genitive

See also: Genitive and génitive

genitive - English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛnətɪv/
  • Hyphenation: ge‧ni‧tive

Adjective

genitive (not comparable)

  1. (grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses a quality, origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.
    • The student who had taken a German exam realised his error afterwards. He had used the dative case instead of the genitive case to show possession.

Translations

Noun

genitive (countable and uncountable, plural genitives)

  1. (grammar, uncountable) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.
  2. (grammar, countable) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.

Translations

Derived terms

genitive - Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA: /ɡe.niˈtiː.u̯e/, [ɡɛnɪˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /d͡ʒe.niˈti.ve/, [d͡ʒeniˈt̪iːve]

Adjective

genitīve

  1. vocative masculine singular of genitīvus

genitive - Romanian

Noun

genitive

  1. plural of genitiv
Meaning and Definition of genitive
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