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Genitive case logo #21000 In grammar, genitive (abbreviated gen; also called the possessive case or second case) is the grammatical case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun; however, it can also indicate various other relationships than possession: certain verbs may take arguments in the genitive case, a...
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genitive case

genitive case logo #21003(from the article `North American Indian languages`) ...{voiced velar fricative}-tsa{voiced velar fricative} is `he cried,` and {voiced velar fricative}wa-tsa{voiced velar fricative} is `he will cry.`In ... ...of nouns and verbs. It was close typologically to Greek, though the shapes of words were very, even surprisi...
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Genitive Case

Genitive Case logo #21217In grammar, a genitive case is a case in the declension of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, participles, etc, expressing source, origin, possession, and the like. In English grammar the corresponding case is the possessive case.
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