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Word: genitive (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • 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.

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Noun:

  • grammar countable A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.
  • grammar uncountable The genitive case; the inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.

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