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▸ adjective: (grammar)
▸ adjective: Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive.
▸ adjective: Of, pertaining to, or used in the genitive case.
▸ noun: (countable) A word inflected in the genitive case, and which thus indicates origin or possession.
▸ noun: (countable, uncountable) Short for genitive case (“a grammatical case used to express a relationship of origin or possession”). [(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.]
Similar:
genitive case,
possessive case,
possessive,
genitival,
possessival,
essive,
ornative,
absolutive,
nominatival,
proprietive,
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objective,
subjective,
partitive,
possessive,
double,
nominative,
old,
latin,
attributive,
english,
dependent
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