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 Translation for 'genitive' from English to Swedish
NOUN   a genitive | genitives
SYNO genitive | genitive case | possessive | ...
ling.
genitiv {u}
genitive
ling.
genitiv {u}
genitive case
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Translation for 'genitive' from English to Swedish

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genitive
genitiv {u}ling.

genitive case
genitiv {u}ling.
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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