Genitive Definition
genitive
English
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Etymology
From Renaissance Latin casus genitīvus, literally "case pertaining to origin, birth", from genitus the perfect passive participle of gignō (“beget”).
Adjective
genitive (not comparable)
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.
Noun
genitive (countable and uncountable; plural genitives)
- (grammar) (uncountable) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.
- (grammar) (countable) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.
Translations
inflection pattern
- Arabic: حالة المضاف إليه (ar) (Hálat al-muDāf 'ilayh) f., مجرور (ar) (majruur) m.
- Armenian: սեռական հոլով (hy) (seṙakan holov)
- Belarusian: родны склон (rodny sklon) m.
- Bosnian: genitiv (bs) m.
- Bulgarian: родителен падеж (rodítelen padéž) m.
- Catalan: genitiu m.
- Chechen: доланиг дожар
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 屬格 (cmn), 属格 (cmn) (shǔgé), 所有格 (cmn) (suǒyǒugé)
- Croatian: genitiv (hr) m.
- Czech: genitiv (cs) m., druhý pád (cs) m.
- Danish: ejefald (da)
- Dutch: tweede naamval (nl) m., genitief (nl) m.
- Esperanto: genitivo (eo)
- Estonian: omastav (et), genitiiv (et)
- Faroese: hvørsfall (fo) n.
- Finnish: genetiivi (fi)
- French: génitif (fr) m.
- Georgian: ნათესაობითი (ka) (nat'esaobit'i)
- German: Genitiv (de) m.
- Greek: γενική (el) (yenikí) f.
- Hebrew: יחס הקנײן (yakhas ha-knayn) m.
- Hungarian: birtokos eset (hu)
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word in the genitive inflection
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- Polish: dopełniacz (pl) m.
- Russian: слово в родительном падеже (ru) (slóvo v rodítel'nom padežé) n.
- Swedish: genitiv (sv) c. or n.
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Derived terms
Romanian
Noun
genitive n. pl.
- Plural form of genitiv.
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