🔄 Synonyms of "Genitive"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| possessivenoun | (grammar) Indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc. |
| possessive casenoun | (grammar) case used to express direct possession, ownership, origin, etc. Though similar in many ways to the genitive case, it is not always the same. Languages that have the possessive case include English and Quenya. |
| genitive casenoun | (grammar) The grammatical case, chiefly applicable to nouns, used to express a relationship of origin or possession. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition of and the suffix -'s. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Genitive"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| possessive casenoun | (grammar) case used to express direct possession, ownership, origin, etc. Though similar in many ways to the genitive case, it is not always the same. Languages that have the possessive case include English and Quenya. |
| genitive casenoun | (grammar) The grammatical case, chiefly applicable to nouns, used to express a relationship of origin or possession. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition of and the suffix -'s. |
| possessivenoun | (grammar) Indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc. |
| adnominalnoun | (grammar) Involving or relating to words that modify a noun. |
| epexegetical | Relating to epexegesis. |
| partitivenoun | (grammar) Indicating a part rather than the whole of something. |
| genitival | (grammar) Having genitive form; pertaining to, expressing, or derived from, the genitive case. |
| possessival | (grammar) Of or pertaining to the possessive case. |
| essivenoun | (grammar) the essive case, or a word in that case. |
| ornative | (grammar) Belonging or relating to such a case. |
| absolutivenoun | (grammar) The absolutive case, or a phrase that uses it. |
| nominatival | (grammar) Of or pertaining to the nominative case; nominative |
| proprietivenoun | (grammar) Of or relating to possession or being endowed of. |
| illative | (grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards or into something. |
| invertive | Of or relating to grammatical case in some languages that functions like the subjunctive mood. |
| allativenoun | (grammar) The allative case, or a word in that case. |
| genitorial | Of or relating to a genitor. |
| destinativenoun | (grammar) The destinative case, a case found in some languages which either marks an object or person as destined for a particular other object, person or end, or marks a destination. |
| caritive | (grammar) Of words or endings that express a lack of something, for example English homeless/-less or unsalted/un-, Finnish koditon, suolaton, -ton. |
| exessive | (grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates the transition away from a state. |
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