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Genitive   Listen
Genitive

noun
1.
The case expressing ownership.  Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case.



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"Genitive" Quotes from Famous Books



... asparagus is cooked." He constantly puts baceolus for stultus, pullejaceus for pullus, vacerrosus for cerritus, vapide se habere for male, and betizare for languere, which is commonly called lachanizare. Likewise simus for sumus, domos for domus in the genitive singular [238]. With respect to the last two peculiarities, lest any person should imagine that they were only slips of his pen, and not customary with him, he never varies. I have likewise remarked this ...
— The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete - To Which Are Added, His Lives Of The Grammarians, Rhetoricians, And Poets • C. Suetonius Tranquillus


Words linked to "Genitive" :   grammar, possessive, oblique case, oblique


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