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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It signifies, “fair the world,” i.e. happy, and is used with possessive pronouns and appositional genitives.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
All here are genitives, as well as Cascas.
From Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Two genitives dependent on one another, unless familiarised by idiom, have an awkward effect in English.
From Charmides by Benjamin Jowett
In phrases such as “son of the father,” or “father of the son,” the genitives have the same effect.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
Shakspeare, for example, uses Lucrece and cockatrice as genitives.
From Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
