genitive
Ownership-marking grammatical form
Genitive is a grammatical case indicating possession or close relationship between nouns.
In English, the genitive appears as the possessive: the dog's tail, Maria's book.
Languages with fuller case systems use genitive forms more broadly—for partitive meanings, with certain prepositions, or to show source or material.
The genitive case answers "whose?" or "of what?"
Overly attached, often toxically
- apostropheMark showing ownership
- ofDerived from something
- whosePossessive interrogative pronoun
- possessorOne who owns something
possessed · belonging · periphrastic · analytic · synthetic · my · your · his
Container or instance
- declensionNoun form variation
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- nounWord naming something
pronoun · adjective · modifier · agreement · inflection · dependency · attribute · determiner
Case marking sentence subjects
- accusativeCase for direct objects
- dativeCase showing indirect object
- ablativeRemoving by erosion
- vocativeCase for direct address
instrumental · locative · partitive · oblique · declension · paradigm · inflection · singular
Ancient Roman language
- GreekOf Athenian origin
- GermanCentral European language
- RussianEastern Slavic language
- FinnishLanguage of Finland
Arabic · Sanskrit · Semitic · Slavic · Baltic · agglutinative
State of owning
- originStarting point or source
- sourcePoint of origin
- materialPhysical matter; pertinent
- partitiveDenoting a portion
subjective · objective · descriptive · qualitative · measure · temporal · authorial · patient
possessive
Overly attached, often toxically
- apostropheMark showing ownership
- ofDerived from something
- whosePossessive interrogative pronoun
possessor · possessed · belonging · periphrastic · analytic · synthetic · my · your · his · her
case
Container or instance
- declensionNoun form variation
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
noun · pronoun · adjective · modifier · agreement · inflection · dependency · attribute · determiner · head
nominative
Case marking sentence subjects
- accusativeCase for direct objects
- dativeCase showing indirect object
- ablativeRemoving by erosion
vocative · instrumental · locative · partitive · oblique · declension · paradigm · inflection · singular · plural
Latin
Ancient Roman language
Finnish · Arabic · Sanskrit · Semitic · Slavic · Baltic · agglutinative
possession
State of owning
partitive · subjective · objective · descriptive · qualitative · measure · temporal · authorial · patient · agent
- GermanGermany, Austria, Switzerland, German, Berlin
- casescarrying case, protective case, hard case, soft case, storage case
- grammardeclension, pronouns, adjectives, conjugation, nouns
- grammar termsnoun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun
- Hungariangoulash, paprika, Budapest, Magyar, puszta
- LatinLatin, Latin vocabulary, Latin roots, Latin alphabet, Latin phrases
genitivenominative
Case marking sentence subjects
accusative · dative · ablative · vocative · locative
gentle, engine, generation, generate, genetic, genesis, genealogy, progenitor, genetics