GENITIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The case expressing ownership

Synonyms:

genitive; genitive case; possessive; possessive case

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("genitive" is a kind of...):

oblique; oblique case (any grammatical case other than the nominative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "genitive"):

attributive genitive; attributive genitive case (a word in the genitive case that is used as an attributive adjective)

Meaning:

Serving to express or indicate possession

Example:

the genitive endings

Synonyms:

genitive; possessive

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Pertainym:

genitive case (the case expressing ownership)