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English
Noun
genitive case (plural genitive cases)
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- John’s milk — John’s is in the genitive (and in the possessive) case.
- glass of milk — milk is in the genitive (but not in the possessive) case.
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- (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.
- Synonym: genitive
Translations
grammatical case used to express a relationship of origin or possession
- Albanian: gjinore (sq) f
- Arabic: حَالَة اَلْمُضَاف إِلَيْهِ f (ḥalāt al-muḍāf ʔilayhi), مَجْرُور m (majrūr)
- Armenian: սեռական հոլով (hy) (seṙakan holov)
- Basque: genitibo
- Belarusian: ро́дны склон m (ródny sklon), ро́дны m (ródny)
- Bulgarian: роди́телен паде́ж m (rodítelen padéž)
- Carpathian Rusyn: ґенітів m (genitiv)
- Catalan: genitiu (ca) m
- Chechen: доланиг дожар (dolanig dožar)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 屬格／属格 (zh) (shǔgé), 所有格 (zh) (suǒyǒugé)
- Czech: genitiv (cs) m, druhý pád m
- Danish: ejefald n, genitiv (da) c
- Dutch: tweede naamval (nl) m, genitief (nl) m
- Erzya: чачтниця (čačťńića)
- Esperanto: genitivo (eo)
- Estonian: omastav (et), genitiiv (et)
- Faroese: hvørsfall (fo) n
- Finnish: genetiivi (fi), omanto (fi)
- French: génitif (fr) m
- Galician: caso xenitivo m
- Georgian: ნათესაობითი (ka) (natesaobiti), ნათესაობითი ბრუნვა (ka) (natesaobiti brunva), გენიტივი (geniṭivi)
- German: Genitiv (de) m, Wesfall (de) m, Wessenfall m, zweiter Fall m, Genetiv (de) m (obsolete), Genetivus m (obsolete), Herkunftsfall m (obsolete), Zeugefall m (obsolete), Genitivkasus m, Genitiv-Kasus m, Genetivkasus m (obsolete), Genetiv-Kasus m (obsolete)
- Greek: γενική (el) f (genikí)
- Ancient: γενική f (genikḗ)
- Hebrew: יחס הקנײן m (yakhas ha-knayn)
- Hungarian: birtokos eset (hu)
- Icelandic: eignarfall (is) n
- Ingrian: genetiivi
- Irish: ginideach (ga) m
- Italian: caso genitivo m
- Japanese: 属格 (ja) (ぞっかく, zokkaku), 生格 (ja) (せいかく, seikaku) (for Slavic languages)
- Korean: 속격 (ko) (sokgyeok)
- Latin: cāsus genitīvus m, genitīvus m, casus possessīvus
- Latvian: ģenitīvs (lv) m
- Lithuanian: kilmininkas (lt) m
- Middle Persian: 'wbš
- Mongolian: харьяалахын тийн ялгал (xarʹjaalaxyn tiin jalgal), харьяалах (mn) (xarʹjaalax)
- Northern Sami: genitiiva
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: genitiv (no) m
- Nynorsk: genitiv (nn) m, eigefall n
- Old English: gestrīenendlīc, geāgniendlīc
- Polish: dopełniacz (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: caso genitivo m
- Romanian: genitiv (ro) n, cazul genitiv n
- Russian: роди́тельный паде́ж (ru) m (rodítelʹnyj padéž), генитив (ru) m (genitiv), роди́тельный (ru) m (rodítelʹnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: tuiseal ginideach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ге̏нитӣв m
- Roman: gȅnitīv (sh) m
- Slovak: druhý pád m, genitív (sk) m
- Slovene: rodilnik (sl) m
- Spanish: genetivo m, caso genitivo m
- Swedish: genitiv (sv) c
- Telugu: షష్ఠీ విభక్తి (te) (ṣaṣṭhī vibhakti)
- Thai: สัมพันธการก (th)
- Turkish: tamlayan durumu (tr), tamlayan hâli (tr)
- Ukrainian: родови́й відмі́нок (uk) m (rodovýj vidmínok), родови́й (uk) m (rodovýj)
- Vietnamese: sở hữu cách, cách sỡ hữu
- Volapük: kimafal, genitif (vo)
- Votic: genetiivi
- Welsh: genidol m
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See also
Further reading
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