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genitive case

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genitive case (plural genitive cases)

Examples
  • John’s milkJohn’s is in the genitive (and in the possessive) case.
  • glass of milkmilk is in the genitive (but not in the possessive) case.
  1. (grammar) The grammatical case, chiefly applicable to nouns, used to express a relationship of origin or possession. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition of and the suffix -'s.
    Synonym: genitive
    • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiv:
      In very early times a man seems to have been known by a single name together with his father's name in the genitive case, e.g. Marcus Marci; []

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