Meaning & use
Genitive
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Relating to the grammatical case that expresses possession, origin, or a close relationship between nouns.
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In Latin, 'puellae' is the genitive form of 'puella,' meaning 'of the girl.'
English marks the genitive largely through the possessive apostrophe, as in 'the dog's bone.'
A note on using this word
From Latin 'genitivus,' related to 'origin' or 'birth'; one of the core grammatical cases in many inflected languages.
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2. noun
The genitive case itself, or a word in that case.
The genitive in German is marked by the ending '-es' on many masculine and neuter nouns.
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