genitive case
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English
[edit]Noun
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John's milk — John's is in the genitive (and in the possessive) case. |
genitive case (plural genitive cases)
- (grammar) Noun case used to express some relationship such as possession or origin. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition “of” and the suffix “-'s”.
Translations
[edit]genitive — see genitive
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- genitive case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia