genitive case

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Noun1.genitive case - the case expressing ownership
oblique, oblique case - any grammatical case other than the nominative
attributive genitive, attributive genitive case - a word in the genitive case that is used as an attributive adjective; "an example of the attributive genetive is `John's' in `John's mother'"
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Translations
druhý pádgenitiv
GenitivWesfall
γενική
genitivo
genetiivi
génitif
genitiv
birtokos eset
eignarfall
kilmininkas
genitieftweede naamval
dopełniacz
genitivo
родительный падеж
rodilnik
genitiv
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References in classic literature
However, this rain is not resting, but is doing something ACTIVELY,--it is falling--to interfere with the bird, likely--and this indicates MOVEMENT, which has the effect of sliding it into the Accusative case and changing DEM Regen into DEN Regen." Having completed the grammatical horoscope of this matter, I answer up confidently and state in German that the bird is staying in the blacksmith shop "wegen (on account of) DEN Regen." Then the teacher lets me softly down with the remark that whenever the word "wegen" drops into a sentence, it ALWAYS throws that subject into the GENITIVE case, regardless of consequences--and therefore this bird stayed in the blacksmith shop "wegen DES Regens."
It would also be incorrect to establish this branch as Ramus comunicans ulnaris, as suggested by the Terminologia Neuroanatomica, which uses the genitive case (Federative International Programme on Anatomical Terminologies, 2017).
The person can be indicated by the possessive suffix and/or a nominal in the genitive case.
53-107), contains the following topics: i) In the language of his grammar, Panini presupposes that the students have native-speaker knowledge of common Sanskrit usage, and interpretation rules such as Astadhyayi 1.1.49 sasthi sthaneyoga, which provides the genitive with the technical meaning 'in place of', are invoked only when there is doubt in the relation the genitive case signifies, ii) Since the purpose of language use from a speaker's perspective is that another person understands the meaning the speaker wishes to convey, a speech unit should be caused by a meaning and not vice versa.
Lunt 2001) constitutes a pronoun in the accusative case--a short form of the full pronoun sebe, which in OCS may mark either the accusative case or the genitive case. We will show in Section 4 that there is little ground, if any at all, to treat se as a pronominal element.
The Genitive Case in Dutch and German: A Study of Morphosyntactic Change in Codified Languages
This is in sharp contrast to Durani's (2007) semantic interpretation which is limited to the genitive case shown by - e-.
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