genitive
adjective
(in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
genitives
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pluralof genitive.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Several old genitives and plural forms continued to exist, and the dative or prepositional case has usually a final e.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
Possessive Pronouns are the genitives of the primitive; thus, no vónama, means, my hat, no being the genitive of nee, and the same with the rest.
From Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. by Buckingham Smith
The genitives of the Third Personal Pronoun, his, his, hiere, her, hiera, their, are indeclinable.
From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith
Plurals ending in s have no genitives; but we say, Womens excellencies, and Weigh the mens wits against the ladies hairs.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
In our own language once, twice, needs, are all genitives; seldom is a dative.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
