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• Genitive case — In grammar, the genitive case or possessive case (also called the second case ) is the case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun but it can also indicate various relationships… …   Wikipedia

• genitive case — грам. родительный падеж, генитив родительный падеж …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

• genitive case — Макаров: родительный падеж …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

• genitive case — родительный падеж, генитив …   Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь

• genitive — 1> грам. родительный падеж, генетив Ex: the genitive of this word is... родительный падеж этого слова... Ex: in the genitive в родительном падеже 2> грам. родительный Ex: genitive case родительный падеж …   Новый большой англо-русский словарь

• Genitive — Gen i*tive, n. (Gram.) The genitive case. [1913 Webster] {Genitive absolute}, a construction in Greek similar to the ablative absolute in Latin. See {Ablative absolute}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Genitive — Gen i*tive, a. [L. genitivus, fr. gignere, genitum, to beget: cf. F. g[ e]nitif. See {Gender}.] (Gram.) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Genitive absolute — In Ancient Greek grammar, the genitive absolute (Latin: genitivus absolutus) is a grammatical construction consisting of a participle and often a noun which are both in the genitive case, very similar to the ablative absolute in Latin. A genitive …   Wikipedia

• genitive — genitival /jen i tuy veuhl/, adj. genitivally, adv. /jen i tiv/, Gram. adj. 1. (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… …   Universalium

• genitive — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin genetivus, genitivus, literally, of generation (erroneous translation of Greek genikos genitive), from genitus Date: 14th century 1. of, relating to, or constituting a grammatical case marking… …   New Collegiate Dictionary