Translation for '
genitive' from English to Swedish
| NOUN | a genitive | genitives | |
| SYNO | genitive | genitive case | possessive | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- The ablative case of Indo-European was absorbed into the genitive in Classical Greek.
- German uses the genitive as a productive case, in addition to adverbial genitive expressions.
- A genitive relation can also be expressed with the relative preposition "ša", and the noun that the genitive phrase depends on appears in status rectus.
- The nouns are usually listed and sorted by their nominative singular form, but declension is defined by the genitive singular form.
- Case-stacking in Kashmiri mostly occurs to genitive construction.
- Genitive and possessive modifiers of verbal nouns exhibit behaviour analogous with that of an ergative–absolutive language.
- In the genitive singular, names in -ēs, parisyllabic, take -ī as well as -is. Some feminine nouns in -ô have the genitive in -ūs.
- In Arabic grammar, the construct state is used to mark the first noun (the thing possessed) in the genitive construction.
- Nouns modified by numerals are in the genitive case. As a vestige of the dual number, 2, 3, and 4 take the genitive singular, and 5 and above take the genitive plural.
- As for a sequence "nominative-genitive", it may be the norm in Latin in a similar ratio.
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