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Genitive case
Jumat, 2026-04-03 09:53:00

In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated gen) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus...

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His genitive
Senin, 2026-01-12 10:22:17

The his genitive is a means of forming a genitive construction by linking two nouns with a possessive adjective such as "his" (e.g. "my friend his car"...

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Grammatical case
Jumat, 2026-06-05 16:05:21

accusative (including functions formerly handled by the dative), and genitive cases. They are used with personal pronouns: subjective case (I, you, he...

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English possessive
Senin, 2026-03-16 17:10:25

an apostrophe to an existing s. This form is sometimes called the Saxon genitive, reflecting the suffix's derivation from Old English. However, personal...

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Latin declension
Minggu, 2026-05-17 18:04:09

to one of these specific five patterns. For example, nouns that have a genitive singular form that ends in -ae are said to belong to "the first declension"...

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Adverbial genitive
Sabtu, 2025-06-21 18:44:48

Look up adverbial genitive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In grammar, an adverbial genitive is a noun declined in the genitive case that functions...

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Construct state
Senin, 2026-03-09 09:11:14

In Afro-Asiatic languages, the first noun in a genitive phrase that consists of a possessed noun followed by a possessor noun often takes on a special...

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Ancient Greek nouns
Minggu, 2026-04-05 08:06:13

form changes to one of the five cases (nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, or dative). The set of forms that a noun will take for each case and number...

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Genitive connector
Jumat, 2026-04-03 22:16:35

A genitive connector is a part of speech used in formation of compound terms through conjunctions. It is used especially in the Bantu languages to denote...

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Genitive construction
Kamis, 2026-06-04 23:02:17

In grammar, a genitive construction or genitival construction is a type of grammatical construction used to express a relation between two nouns such as...

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Homeric Greek
Minggu, 2026-04-12 17:12:47

include nouns like θεᾱ́ ("a goddess"), and the genitive plural of first-declension nouns and the genitive singular of masculine first-declension nouns....

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He (pronoun)
Minggu, 2026-03-01 07:45:23

form (also called the oblique case) his: the dependent and independent genitive (possessive) forms himself: the reflexive form Old English had a single...

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Possessive
Minggu, 2026-04-26 22:55:55

of genitive. For example, the genitive construction "speed of the car" is equivalent to the possessive form "the car's speed". However, the genitive construction...

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She (pronoun)
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 07:39:51

also called the 'oblique'.) form; the dependent genitive (possessive) form hers: the independent genitive form herself: the reflexive form Old English had...

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We
Kamis, 2026-04-30 19:04:42

called the 'oblique'.) form our: the dependent genitive (possessive) form ours: the independent genitive (possessive) form ourselves: the reflexive form...

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Genitive absolute
Jumat, 2026-01-23 08:27:26

Greek grammar, the genitive absolute is a grammatical construction consisting of a participle and often a noun both in the genitive case, which is very...

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I (pronoun)
Kamis, 2026-04-23 07:49:08

also called 'oblique') form my: the dependent genitive (possessive) form mine: the independent genitive (possessive) form myself: the reflexive form Old...

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Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod
Senin, 2026-01-12 10:20:38

Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (English: The Dative is the Death of the Genitive) is a series of books by Bastian Sick that deals in an entertaining manner...

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Russian declension
Rabu, 2026-04-15 14:02:15

language). Nominal declension comprises six cases – nominative, accusative, genitive, prepositional, dative, instrumental, two numbers (singular and plural)...

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Czech declension
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 17:39:11

Czech, one of the Slavic languages. Czech has seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative and instrumental, partly inherited...

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Apposition
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 13:44:50

for the double genitive: a friend of mine. The ending -'s as in In Dublin's Fair City, which is uncommon. In Classical Greek: "Genitive of explanation"...

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Polish grammar
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:30:05

accompaniment of); with the genitive meaning "from, out of" do/od, with genitive, meaning "to, into/from" dla, with genitive, meaning "for" o, with locative...

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Declension
Jumat, 2026-02-20 21:37:19

number (e.g. singular, dual, plural), case (e.g. nominative, accusative, genitive, or dative), gender (e.g. masculine, feminine, or neuter), and a number...

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Latin grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:42:47

to guess the genitive of a noun from the nominative: dux "leader" has genitive ducis but rēx "king" has rēgis; pater "father" has genitive patris but iter...

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Kashubian language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 21:53:01

forms: Kashubian dómk (genitive singular Kashubian dómkù) vs Polish domek (genitive singular Polish domku, Kashubian matk (genitive plural of Kashubian matka)...

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German nouns
Jumat, 2026-03-13 21:29:15

singular or plural. German has four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. German is unusual among languages using the Latin alphabet in that all...

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Carnivore
Jumat, 2026-05-29 21:38:21

A carnivore /ˈkɑːrnɪvɔːr/, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or flesh and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose...

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Russian grammar
Senin, 2026-05-11 08:30:16

appears between the nominative and genitive cases. Nominal declension involves six main cases – nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental...

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History of the Polish language
Rabu, 2026-05-13 20:37:52

świętokrzyskie, once as a masculine genitive, once as a masculine genitive-accusative, once as a neuter genitive, onogo (genitive-accusative). Masovian dialects...

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Umbrian language
Minggu, 2026-05-17 05:17:15

the genitive may either be functioning as a genitive of characteristic or as a partitive genitive. The objective genitive, in which the genitive functions...

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Latin word order
Selasa, 2026-04-14 08:45:08

any order, and an adjective can go before or after its noun, as can a genitive such as hostium "of the enemies". A common feature of Latin is hyperbaton...

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Hindustani declension
Jumat, 2026-02-20 08:46:58

accusative, dative, genitive, and oblique). The oblique case in pronouns has three subdivisions: Regular, Ergative, and Genitive. There are eight case-marking...

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Slovene declension
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 14:30:02

genitive the second, and so on. The nouns are usually listed and sorted by their nominative singular form, but declension is defined by the genitive singular...

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Old Latin
Minggu, 2026-05-24 22:20:38

The genitive singular endings include -is < -es and -us < *-os. In the genitive plural, some forms appear to affix the case ending to the genitive singular...

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Pronouns in German
Minggu, 2026-05-24 08:19:37

auf dem Tisch (the thing on the table) There are also genitive direct objects. But the genitive object, other than accusative or dative objects, is somewhat...

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Irish declension
Kamis, 2026-05-07 17:33:45

has five noun declensions, each with four cases (nominative, vocative, genitive, dative), and singular and plural forms. There are four classes of declension...

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IAU designated constellations
Kamis, 2026-05-28 01:42:16

official three-letter abbreviation based on the genitive form of the constellation name. As the genitive is similar to the base name, the majority of the...

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They
Selasa, 2026-05-12 17:53:41

non-standard determinative form. their: the dependent genitive (possessive) form theirs: independent genitive form themselves: prototypical reflexive form themself:...

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Declension of Greek nouns in Latin
Kamis, 2026-05-14 20:37:32

in prose). In the genitive singular, names in -ēs, parisyllabic, take -ī as well as -is. Some feminine nouns in -ô have the genitive in -ūs. Greek names...

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Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 20:54:17

is said to have a genitive length (although the word does not necessarily have to be in the genitive case in order to have genitive length on its syllable;...

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Variable-star designation
Selasa, 2026-04-14 06:14:32

format, with an identifying label (as described below) preceding the Latin genitive of the name of the constellation in which the star lies. The identifying...

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German declension
Rabu, 2026-03-11 15:58:42

nominative, accusative, and genitive case markings. Modern High German distinguishes between four cases—nominative, accusative, genitive, and dative—and three...

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Arabic grammar
Jumat, 2026-04-24 02:12:49

aḍ-ḍamā’ir al-muttaṣilah) are used both as accusative and genitive forms of the pronouns. As genitive forms they appear in the following contexts: After the...

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Romanian grammar
Kamis, 2026-02-12 05:18:40

declensions have been reduced to only three forms (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative, and vocative) from the original six or seven. Another, that is...

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Modern Greek grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-05 14:31:04

The merger of the dative and the genitive case. In Greek, indirect objects are expressed partly through genitive forms of nouns or pronouns, and partly...

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Gothic declension
Rabu, 2026-04-29 20:45:42

genitive case, which expresses possession, measurement, or source. The English possessive suffix enclitic "–'s" is derived from an earlier genitive case...

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ʾIʿrab
Kamis, 2026-01-01 00:16:45

in the written Arabic and are never pronounced with the ending -an. The genitive case (al-majrūr, ٱلْمَجْرُورُ) Objects of prepositions. Construct case:...

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Pronouns in English
Rabu, 2026-04-22 23:17:35

(e.g., She isn't herself today) or the independent genitive form (e.g., It's theirs.). Only genitive pronouns may function as determinatives. The most...

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Capon
Jumat, 2026-01-30 21:23:01

A capon (from Latin: cāpō, genitive cāpōnis) is a male chicken that has been castrated or neutered, either physically or chemically, to improve the quality...

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Czech koruna
Rabu, 2026-03-18 04:32:51

in Czech is koruna česká (plural koruny české, though the zero-suffixed genitive plural form korun českých is used on banknotes and coins of value 5 Kč...

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Archaic Dutch declension
Jumat, 2026-05-29 20:34:38

the Dutch language, but few of them are productive. One exception is the genitive case, which is still productive to a certain extent. Although in the spoken...

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Camelopardalis
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 12:00:59

version recognized by the International Astronomical Union matches the genitive form, seen suffixed to most of its brighter stars. First attested in English...

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Modus operandi
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 17:53:47

the genitive case, "of operating"; gerunds can never be pluralised in Latin, as opposed to gerundives. When a noun with an attribute in the genitive is...

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Old High German declension
Senin, 2026-03-02 19:36:29

nominative cases are identical. The genitive case, which expresses possession, measurement, or source. In English, the genitive case is represented analytically...

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Ancient Greek accent
Minggu, 2026-05-31 17:08:12

-ος -os, have a genitive plural ending in -ῶν -ôn. This also applies to 1st declension adjectives, but only if the feminine genitive plural is different...

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History of English
Senin, 2026-05-11 21:12:16

that also replaced the genitive case after prepositions. Nouns in Modern English no longer decline for case, except for the genitive. Pronouns such as whom...

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Suffixaufnahme
Senin, 2026-06-01 06:57:56

is a linguistic phenomenon used in forming a genitive construction, whereby prototypically a genitive noun agrees with its head noun. The term Suffixaufnahme...

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Old English grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-19 21:41:57

fully inflected, with four grammatical cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative), and a vestigial instrumental, two grammatical numbers (singular...

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Inflection
Rabu, 2026-05-20 16:54:58

preceded by the separate words more and most, respectively – a non-inflected genitive construction). There are eight regular inflectional affixes in the English...

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Faliscan language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 01:26:40

= Latin praetor de senatus sententia (zenatuo for senatuos, an archaic genitive). The question of irregular, unexpected developments of the Proto-Indo-European...

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Middle High German
Kamis, 2026-05-14 15:21:24

Middle High German nouns were declined according to four cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative), two numbers (singular and plural) and three genders...

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Apostrophe
Jumat, 2026-05-29 02:04:41

but the elision of the ⟨e⟩ from the Old English genitive singular inflection "-es". The plural genitive did not use the "-es" inflection, and since many...

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Stolon
Minggu, 2026-01-18 14:47:52

In biology, a stolon (/ˈstoʊlɒn/ from Latin stolō, genitive stolōnis – "branch"), also known as a runner, is a horizontal connection between parts of an...

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Dual (grammatical number)
Rabu, 2026-05-13 01:43:37

"one", genitive singular if the numeral ends in "two" to "four", and genitive plural otherwise. As an exception, the form of noun is also genitive plural...

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Latin numerals
Kamis, 2026-05-07 15:55:16

gender and grammatical case. Ūnus 'one' declines like a pronoun and has genitive ūnīus (or ūnius) and dative ūnī: The first three numbers have masculine...

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Partitive case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:25:09

used, since like in Finnish, the total object form coincides with the genitive in the singular, and the nominative in the plural. In many Estonian words...

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Arabic nouns and adjectives
Minggu, 2025-08-31 12:12:36

are declined according to the following properties: Case (nominative, genitive, and accusative) State (indefinite, definite or construct) Gender (masculine...

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Personal pronouns in English
Senin, 2026-05-11 20:08:19

authorities talk of a genitive case, the inflected word being the last word in a phrasal genitive construction; others regard the genitive marker as a clitic...

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Androgeus (son of Minos)
Sabtu, 2025-11-01 17:28:46

Latin: Androgeum or Androgeōs derived from andros "of a man" and geos, genitive gē "earth, land") was a Cretan prince as the son of King Minos. Androgeus's...

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Polish orthography
Kamis, 2026-02-19 01:41:51

example, dalii (genitive of dalia "dalia"), Bułgarii (genitive of Bułgaria "Bulgaria"), chemii (genitive of chemia "chemistry"), religii (genitive of religia...

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Reflexive pronoun
Kamis, 2026-04-02 21:00:16

reflexive and the nonreflexive. In some languages, this distinction includes genitive forms: see, for instance, the Danish examples below. In languages with...

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Veps language
Senin, 2026-01-26 01:46:54

Compare: norʹ /norʲ/ ("young"), genitive singular noren /norʲen/, partitive plural norid /norʲid/ nor /nor/ ("rope"), genitive singular noran /norɑn/, partitive...

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Kunya (Arabic)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 22:24:23

sometimes daughter. Abū or Umm precedes the son's or daughter's name in the genitive case, for example Abu Bakr or Umm Kulthum. It is often used as a component...

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Ugaritic
Selasa, 2026-05-26 15:25:58

feminine), three cases for nouns and adjectives (nominative, accusative, and genitive [also, note the possibility of a locative case]); three numbers: (singular...

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Geas
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 09:59:43

(nominative singular geis /ɟɛʃ/, nominative plural geasa /ˈɟasˠə/; genitive sg. geise /ˈɟɛʃə/, genitive plural geas /ɟasˠ/). In modern Scottish Gaelic, the spelling...

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Bengali grammar
Rabu, 2026-06-03 04:47:21

just have a -র -r following it, as in the genitive of ছেলে chhele being ছেলের chheler "(the) boy's". The genitive ending is also applied to verbs (in their...

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Vulgar Latin
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 00:21:22

shifted from a markedly synthetic language to a more analytic one. The genitive case died out around the 3rd century AD, according to Meyer-Lübke[obsolete source]...

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English language
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 00:03:25

personal pronouns, the instrumental case was dropped, and the use of the genitive case was limited to indicating possession. The inflectional system regularised...

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Middle English
Jumat, 2026-06-05 00:01:22

their genitive forms with -e or no ending (e.g., fole hoves, horses' hooves), and nouns of relationship ending in -er frequently have no genitive ending...

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Sancti Spíritus
Selasa, 2026-03-03 07:05:49

and one of the oldest Cuban European settlements. Sancti Spíritus is the genitive case of Latin Sanctus Spiritus ("Holy Spirit"). The city was founded by...

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Finnish noun cases
Senin, 2026-03-09 22:37:40

that have two vowel stems, the weak vowel stem comes from the genitive singular. The genitive indicates possession. It is also used preceding postpositions...

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You
Rabu, 2026-04-22 10:09:56

(objective or oblique case) forms your: the dependent genitive (possessive) form yours: the independent genitive (possessive) form yourselves: the plural reflexive...

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Proto-Germanic grammar
Selasa, 2026-04-28 02:16:56

stressed variant being used for the genitive was probably the speakers of Germanic wanting to keep the nominative/genitive opposition intact in some form,...

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Thou
Senin, 2026-05-11 10:30:34

standardized declension according to the following table:[citation needed] The genitives my, mine, thy, and thine are used as possessive adjectives before a noun...

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Estonian grammar
Rabu, 2025-11-26 21:14:10

singular genitive: singular cases except nominative and partitive, plural nominative, singular partitive: plural genitive, plural genitive: plural cases...

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Irish initial mutations
Kamis, 2026-05-07 13:03:05

Proto-Celtic nominative feminine definite article *sindā and masculine genitive definite article *sindī. Since they ended in vowels, a following word initial...

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Relative clause
Senin, 2026-04-27 22:07:53

clause with gapping and use of a possessive particle—as normally used in a genitive construction—to link the relative clause to the head noun, as in Chinese...

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Habemus papam
Kamis, 2026-05-28 11:00:07

During the last century, the new papal name has often been given in the genitive case in Latin, corresponding to the translation "who takes the name of...

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Attic Greek
Kamis, 2026-04-16 00:49:02

(Osthoff's law): basilēos → basileōs "of a king" (genitive singular) basilēōn → basileōn (genitive plural) basilēusi → basileusi (dative plural) Attic...

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Ryukyuan languages
Selasa, 2026-03-24 14:10:35

using verbalization. Many Ryukyuan languages mark both nominatives and genitives with the same marker. This marker has the unusual feature of changing...

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Serbo-Croatian grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-26 09:56:31

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. jedan...

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Northern Sámi
Jumat, 2026-05-22 19:42:49

accusative/genitive singular form. A noun in the comitative plural is preceded by a demonstrative in either the comitative or the accusative/genitive plural...

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Personal pronouns in Spanish
Kamis, 2026-04-02 21:04:00

with genitive pronouns to express the concept of "what is mine", "what is yours", "what is his", etc.: lo mío, lo tuyo, lo suyo, etc. Genitive pronouns...

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Patronymic
Rabu, 2026-05-27 16:32:40

for sons and often for daughters too. In the northern provinces, -s, as genitive case, was almost universally used for both sons and daughters. The suffix...

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Northwest Semitic languages
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 00:15:34

reconstructed for Proto-Northwest Semitic nouns (nominative, accusative, genitive), two genders (masculine, feminine) and three numbers (single, dual, plural)...

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Nunation
Jumat, 2026-05-15 02:16:04

marked by the diacritics represent case endings (nominative, accusative and genitive). The noun phrase is fully declinable and syntactically unmarked for definiteness...

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Upper Sorbian language
Selasa, 2026-05-26 14:00:19

of the genitive if the adjective agrees with an animate noun. In the dual and plural, the form of the accusative coincides with the genitive if the adjective...

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Latvian declension
Selasa, 2025-10-14 18:13:31

inflected in six declensions. There are seven cases: nominative (nominatīvs) genitive (ģenitīvs) dative (datīvs) accusative (akuzatīvs) instrumental (instrumentālis)...

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Slovincian grammar
Senin, 2026-05-25 03:55:15

three numbers: singular, dual, and plural; and seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative. The vocative...

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Indo-European ablaut
Rabu, 2026-04-22 03:39:31

are the verbs with "Narten" inflection, and nouns like *mḗh₁-n̥s "moon", genitive *méh₁-n̥s-os. Alternations of this type were rare, however, and the e ~...

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Dorado
Jumat, 2026-06-05 00:58:48

the name Dorado is not Latin but Spanish, astronomers give it the Latin genitive form Doradus when naming its stars; it is treated (like the adjacent asterism...

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Polish morphology
Selasa, 2026-02-17 09:36:13

forms i appears in place of the expected y or vice versa (for example, the genitive of mąka "flour" is mąki, not *mąky). The declension endings starting with...

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Old Frisian
Selasa, 2026-06-02 19:37:43

otherwise be formed using either the genitive or dative case. Nouns were regularly combined without any use of genitive forms, such as in fiskdam ('fishing...

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Carian language
Senin, 2026-05-18 04:41:51

nouns are inflected for at least three cases: nominative, accusative, and genitive. The dative case is assumed to be present also, based on related Anatolian...

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Animacy
Senin, 2026-04-13 09:40:53

Ryukyu Islands, agree in animacy in their case systems. Middle Korean has genitive particles that were used differently depends on a noun's animacy. For an...

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Hindustani grammar
Kamis, 2026-03-12 22:30:19

only be used with the genitive oblique case pronouns and the genitive kī/ke must be omitted before attaching them with the genitive oblique case. Some compound...

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Sagittarius (constellation)
Senin, 2026-05-25 12:31:53

List of stars in Sagittarius Abbreviation Sgr Genitive Sagittarii Pronunciation /ˌsædʒɪˈtɛəriəs/, genitive /-iaɪ/ Symbolism the Archer Right ascension 19h...

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Andrology
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 15:49:23

Andrology (from Ancient Greek: ἀνήρ, anēr, genitive ἀνδρός, andros 'man' and -λογία, -logia) is a name for the medical specialty that deals with male health...

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Old Norse morphology
Selasa, 2026-05-19 20:50:27

pronouns are declined in four grammatical cases – nominative, accusative, genitive and dative, in singular and plural. Some pronouns (first and second person)...

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Nominative case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:21:47

covers the roles of accusative, dative and objects of a preposition. The genitive case is then usually called the possessive form, rather than a noun case...

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Icelandic name
Kamis, 2026-05-28 05:34:21

their father (patronymic) or in some cases mother (matronymic) in the genitive, followed by -son ("son") or -dóttir ("daughter"). In some cases both the...

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Romanian nouns
Kamis, 2025-12-18 20:19:21

definite article: "câinii" (the dogs) - "pâinile" (the loaves of bread); genitive/dative: "câinelui" (of/to the dog) - "pâinii" (of/to the bread). Also,...

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Eponym
Senin, 2026-03-16 22:35:12

For examples, see the comparison table below. English can use either genitive case or attributive position to indicate the adjectival nature of the eponymous...

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Middle Bulgarian
Selasa, 2026-05-19 01:25:52

prepositions in the place of the dative, genitive and instrumental cases. There are instances of the genitive being replaced by the preposition от, and...

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Pali
Jumat, 2026-05-29 02:36:52

case, instrumental or karaṇa case, dative or sampadāna case, ablative, genitive or sāmin case, and locative or bhumma case. However, in many instances...

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Accusative case
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 23:45:04

The PIE accusative case has nearly eroded in Russian, merging with the genitive or the nominative in most declensions. Only singular first-declension nouns...

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Proto-Italic language
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:46:45

"papyrus"). The genitive singular in *-ī is of unknown origin, but is found in both Italic and Celtic. It mostly ousted the older inherited genitive in *-osjo...

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Ergative case
Jumat, 2026-03-27 21:48:57

of transitive verbs and possessors of nouns. This syncretism with the genitive is commonly referred to as the relative case. Nez Perce has a three-way...

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Alexander
Jumat, 2026-05-29 14:01:53

ἀλέξειν (aléxein; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun ἀνήρ (anḗr, genitive: ἀνδρός, andrós; meaning 'man'). The earliest attested form of the name...

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Locative case
Senin, 2026-05-25 15:43:51

Indo-European languages, the locative case merged into other cases (often genitive or dative) in form and/or function, but some daughter languages retained...

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Swedish language
Rabu, 2026-05-06 18:09:34

nominative and genitive (except for pronouns that, as in English, also are inflected in the object form) – although it is debated if the genitive in Swedish...

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Muridae
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 22:10:20

Eurasia, Africa, and Australia. The name Muridae comes from the Latin mus (genitive muris), meaning "mouse", since all true mice belong to the family, with...

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Ve (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 02:56:17

"language" is мова (mova), but the adjectival form is моўны (mowny), and the genitive plural of the noun (formed by removing the final ⟨а⟩) is моў (mow). In...

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Dative case
Minggu, 2026-05-24 08:35:47

spite of), während (during), and wegen (because of) which require the genitive in modern formal language, are most commonly used with the dative in colloquial...

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Polabian language
Minggu, 2026-05-10 07:37:59

hands/arms"), nüʒe ("two feet/legs"). Feminine nouns in the genitive dual are syncretic with the genitive plural: ai̯ dåvüх grau̯k (“at two pears”). Feminine...

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Draco (constellation)
Senin, 2026-05-25 11:44:10

Constellation List of stars in Draco Abbreviation Dra Genitive Draconis Pronunciation /ˈdreɪkoʊ/ genitive /drəˈkoʊnɪs/ Symbolism the Dragon Right ascension...

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Lithuanian declension
Kamis, 2026-04-30 02:41:01

cases are: nominative (vardininkas); used to identify the inflection type genitive (kilmininkas); used to identify the inflection type dative (naudininkas)...

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Oscan language
Rabu, 2026-05-27 01:44:03

nouns can have one of the seven cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative and locative (the last being vestigial in classical Latin)...

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Icelandic language
Jumat, 2026-04-10 21:29:17

inflected language with four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. Icelandic nouns can have one of three grammatical genders: masculine,...

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Plural
Rabu, 2025-12-10 13:14:31

with the numerals 5, 6, etc. (genitive singular in Russian and nominative plural in Polish in the former case, genitive plural in the latter case). Also...

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Language and the euro
Rabu, 2026-05-13 23:05:07

Spain). In most Slavic languages numerals are sometimes followed by the genitive case instead of the nominative. Partitive singular. Most languages use...

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Consonant gradation
Rabu, 2026-03-25 10:18:04

nominative and genitive singular respectively) is the grade; the final consonant that originally closed the syllable in the genitive form, namely -n...

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Akkadian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 01:00:16

The city's governor A genitive relation can also be expressed with the relative preposition ša, and the noun that the genitive phrase depends on appears...

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Proto-Celtic language
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:10:24

Celtiberian shows -o- stem genitives ending in -o rather than -ī: aualo "[son] of Avalos". Also note that the genitive singular does not match Proto-Indo-European's...

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Rusyn language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 09:58:55

those languages, Rusyn uses a seven-case system of nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, instrumental, and vocative cases. One final point of...

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Chlamys
Sabtu, 2025-06-14 19:26:45

The chlamys (Ancient Greek: χλαμύς, romanized: khlamús; genitive: χλαμύδος, khlamúdos) was a type of ancient Greek cloak. It was worn by men for military...

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Argo Navis
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 19:35:06

sky. The genitive is "Argus Navis", abbreviated "Arg". John Flamsteed and other early modern astronomers called it Navis (the Ship), genitive "Navis",...

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List of stars in Boötes
Selasa, 2026-04-21 17:12:08

stars in the constellation Boötes, sorted by decreasing brightness. The genitive for stars in this constellation is Boötis and the IAU abbreviation is Boo...

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Moon
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:10:51

comes from Proto-Indo-European *mēnsis ('month') – from earlier *mēnōt (genitive *mēneses), which may be related to a verb meaning 'to measure [time]'....

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Eridanus (constellation)
Senin, 2026-05-25 11:31:20

List of stars in Eridanus Abbreviation Eri Genitive Eridani Pronunciation /ɪˈrɪdənəs/ Erídanus, genitive /ɪˈrɪdənaɪ/ Symbolism the river Eridanus Right...

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Ancient Greek verbs
Senin, 2026-03-16 16:26:23

is in a construction known as the "genitive absolute", when the participle and its subject are placed in the genitive case. This construction is used when...

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Lydian language
Senin, 2026-05-18 14:30:56

are securely attested: nominative, accusative, and dative-locative. A genitive case seems to be present in the plural, but in the singular usually a so-called...

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Old Irish grammar
Jumat, 2026-05-22 12:46:41

consonant and the genitive singular depalatalizing that consonant when attaching the signature genitive ending (-o or -a) without fail. The genitive singular formation...

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Manchu language
Senin, 2026-05-25 15:11:15

to remember" However, the genitive can often express the same instrumental meaning. It has been claimed that the genitive is used for the instrument...

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Faroese grammar
Selasa, 2026-06-02 01:45:46

grammatical genders and four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. Below is a representation of three grammatical genders, two numbers and...

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Ilium (bone)
Rabu, 2026-04-01 12:51:54

ilii. This latter expression supposes a genitive singular of the alternate noun ilium instead of a genitive plural of the noun ile. Quite inconsistently...

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Milewski's typology
Senin, 2025-11-24 07:42:31

classifies casual languages in which the nominal attribute is marked with the genitive case. The letters a, b, and c represent formal inflective markers specific...

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Germanic personal names in Galicia
Senin, 2026-04-20 11:10:18

Aliarici, genitive of Aliaricus Baltar to Baltarii, genitive of Baltharius Beariz to Viarici, genitive of Viaricus Calvos de Randín to Randini, genitive of Randinus...

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Case hierarchy
Kamis, 2026-02-26 03:40:31

separate in some paradigms; Irish also has a genitive and vocative case. In Punjabi, the accusative, genitive, and dative have merged to an oblique case...

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Tuatha Dé Danann
Senin, 2026-06-01 21:38:27

Irish word túath (plural túatha) means "tribe, folk, people"; dé is the genitive case of día and, depending on context, can mean "god, gods, goddess" or...

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Jones (surname)
Jumat, 2026-01-09 19:43:15

origin derived from the personal name Jone (a variant of John) and the genitive ending -s. It is particularly common in Wales, where it represents an anglicization...

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Kashubian grammar
Selasa, 2024-09-03 09:43:17

displays seven cases inherited from Proto-Slavic. They are nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative case, but the...

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Zeus
Rabu, 2026-05-27 22:04:55

It is inflected as follows: vocative: Ζεῦ (Zeû); accusative: Δία (Día); genitive: Διός (Diós); dative: Διί (Dií). Diogenes Laërtius quotes Pherecydes of...

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It (pronoun)
Minggu, 2026-05-24 03:29:16

case is also called the "oblique".) its: the dependent and independent genitive (possessive) forms itself: the reflexive and intensive form Historically...

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Quantitative metathesis
Sabtu, 2025-12-06 10:18:20

the genitive plural is sometimes irregular because it follows the analogue of the genitive singular: *πολέι̯-ων poléy-ōn → πόλεων póleōn (genitive plural...

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Strong noun
Rabu, 2025-01-29 07:19:15

noun. Most neuters are strong, and end in -s in the genitive singular with the exception of fé, genitive fjár. Although strong neuters technically only belong...

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Icelandic grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-19 21:23:16

and are declined into four cases (nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive). Nominals decline into two numbers: singular and plural, and verbs conjugate...

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Pronouns in Hindi
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 23:49:12

postpositions to form the ergative, accusative/dative, instrumental/ablative, genitive, inessive, adessive, terminative, and semblative cases. The postpositions...

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Proto-Indo-European nominals
Jumat, 2026-05-22 02:54:52

the genitive *limnés (root form *li-, suffix *-mn- and ending *-és). In this word, the nominative has the ablaut vowels *é–o–Ø while the genitive has...

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Grammatical gender
Jumat, 2026-05-22 02:34:34

its genitive singular form is Sees, but when it is feminine (meaning "sea"), the genitive is See, because feminine nouns do not take the genitive -s....

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Moronene language
Senin, 2024-11-11 06:16:18

to be no present-day politeness distinction. There are two classes of genitive pronouns in Moronene which must be learned by speakers, which is unique...

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Basque language
Kamis, 2026-05-21 15:35:50

Dative liburu-a-ri liburu-e-i liburu-ri Local genitive liburu-ko liburu-e-ta-ko liburu-tako Possessive genitive liburu-a-ren liburu-e-n liburu-ren Comitative...

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Ancient Greek grammar
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 04:53:46

g.: φιλέει (philéei) > φιλεῖ (phileî) "he" or "she loves"; (c) in the genitive plural of all 1st declension nouns and all 3rd declension nouns of the...

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English prepositions
Jumat, 2025-08-29 14:37:40

languages such as Latin. For example, of typically corresponds to the genitive. The history of the idea of prepositions in English grammar writing can...

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Primitive Irish
Senin, 2026-06-01 21:13:20

inscriptions are memorials, consisting of the name of the deceased in the genitive case, followed by MAQI, MAQQI, "[the stone] of the son" (Modern Irish mic)...

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Nicolaus Copernicus
Senin, 2026-06-01 17:35:27

the title page of De revolutionibus, Rheticus published the name (in the genitive, or possessive, case) as "Nicolai Copernici". There has been discussion...

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Greek language
Senin, 2026-05-18 14:24:23

disuse of the dative case (its functions being largely taken over by the genitive). The verbal system has lost the infinitive, the synthetically-formed future...

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Swahili grammar
Kamis, 2026-05-21 21:32:47

These pronouns also have a separate genitive (possessive) stem, which is the combining stem that is used when a genitive prefix is added. Note that the sex/gender...

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Williams (surname)
Rabu, 2026-02-18 00:52:14

surname of English origin derived from the personal name William and the genitive ending -s. It is also common in Wales, where it represents an anglicization...

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Boötes
Rabu, 2026-05-27 22:35:56

Constellation List of stars in Boötes Abbreviation Boo Genitive Boötis Pronunciation /boʊˈoʊtiːz/, genitive /boʊˈoʊtɪs/ Symbolism The Herdsman Right ascension...

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Phyllida
Selasa, 2025-12-23 03:48:56

Phyllida or Phillida is a feminine given name derived from the genitive case of the Greek Phyllidos and the Latin Phyllidis, both meaning “foliage.” It...

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Ezāfe
Minggu, 2026-05-10 00:05:52

A genitive construction would have looked much like a Latin construct, with the first noun being in any case, and the second being in the genitive case...

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Ye (pronoun)
Minggu, 2026-05-24 05:24:21

1819). Dative case, indirect object Accusative case, direct object The genitives my, mine, thy, and thine are used as possessive adjectives before a noun...

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Suffix
Selasa, 2026-06-02 12:10:09

suffixes is because its case, nominative, is "unmarked" meines Computers—genitive case meinem Computer—dative case meinen Computer—accusative case мой компьютер—where...

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Japanese language
Jumat, 2026-04-17 13:10:00

Old Japanese grammatical elements remain in the modern language – the genitive particle tsu (superseded by modern no) is preserved in words such as matsuge...

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German adjectives
Kamis, 2025-02-20 10:19:58

adjectival ending "-en" in the masculine and neuter genitive singular. (Note: the masculine and neuter genitive singular was originally "-es", as might be expected...

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Old Dutch
Selasa, 2026-03-31 21:38:34

in the northern languages. Examples include Old Dutch ringis ("ring", genitive), Old High German ring versus Old Saxon and Old English hring, or ros ("steed")...

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In the beginning (phrase)
Senin, 2026-05-18 09:30:43

prepositional suffix) and rēʾšît (a noun). As a result, this forms part of a genitive phrase, leading to a linguistic and exegetical translation of this word...

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Syncretism (linguistics)
Jumat, 2026-05-01 05:09:09

mapping is from the other direction. This is exemplified in Russian in Genitive Singular and Nominative Plural forms. In some cases, it is realized as...

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East Baltic languages
Kamis, 2025-03-13 10:04:18

b in Lithuanian dialects, the use of various syntactic borrowings like genitive of negation (cf. nematau vilko (gen) 'I don’t see a wolf'; matau vilką...

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Singular they
Rabu, 2026-05-27 21:01:42

Objective (accusative) Prenominal possessive (dependent genitive) Predicative possessive (independent genitive) Reflexive He He is my son. When my son cries, I...

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Aquila (constellation)
Jumat, 2026-05-22 03:08:48

stars in Aquila Abbreviation Aql Genitive Aquilae Pronunciation /ˈækwɪlə/ Áquila, occasionally /əˈkwɪlə/; genitive /ˈækwɪliː/ Symbolism the Eagle Right...

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Bremian dialect
Senin, 2026-03-02 11:19:00

to Bremen: The genitive has largely disappeared from use in Bremen, replaced by paraphrases with von "from" or the possessive genitive, e.g., arme Lüde...

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Mos maiorum
Kamis, 2026-02-12 05:25:32

"way of the ancestors"; pl.: mores, cf. English "mores"; maiorum is the genitive plural of "greater" or "elder") is the unwritten code from which the ancient...

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Ophiuchus
Minggu, 2026-05-03 07:29:55

Constellation List of stars in Ophiuchus Abbreviation Oph Genitive Ophiuchi Pronunciation /ˌɒfiˈjuːkəs/ genitive: /ˌɒfiˈjuːkaɪ/ Symbolism the serpent-bearer Right...

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Slovak koruna
Jumat, 2026-05-29 20:17:10

korún and halierov being used after other numbers. The latter forms are genitive. In 1993, the newly independent Slovakia introduced its own koruna, replacing...

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Turkish grammar
Rabu, 2026-06-03 15:05:35

in the dative and an anomalous genitive. All personal pronouns aside from onlar form their instrumental with the genitive form. The absolute case is generally...

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Silesian grammar
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:37:15

pronouns, and adjectives. There are seven cases: nominative (mianownik), genitive (dopołniŏcz), dative (cylownik), accusative (biernik), vocative (wołŏcz)...

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Canes Venatici
Selasa, 2026-05-19 20:25:48

Venatici Abbreviation CVn Genitive Canum Venaticorum Pronunciation /ˈkeɪniːz vɪˈnætɪsaɪ/ KAY-neez vin-AT-iss-eye, genitive /ˈkeɪnəm vɪnætɪˈkɔːrəm/ KAY-nəm...

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Volapük
Kamis, 2026-05-21 08:35:06

nominative, genitive, dative and accusative. In compound words, the first part of the compound is usually separated from the second by the genitive termination...

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Bayer designation
Kamis, 2026-05-07 02:42:42

specific star is identified by a Greek or Latin letter followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name. The original list of Bayer...

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Thy
Selasa, 2024-05-07 17:37:06

in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. THY or Thy may refer to: Thy, the genitive case of the English personal pronoun thou (archaic) Thy (district), Jutland...

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Albion
Rabu, 2026-05-06 12:34:10

Celtic languages is related to Albion: Alba in Scottish Gaelic, Albain (genitive Alban) in Irish, Nalbin in Manx and Alban in Welsh and Cornish. These names...

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Scorpius
Minggu, 2026-03-22 07:14:15

Constellation List of stars in Scorpius Abbreviation Sco Genitive Scorpii Pronunciation /ˈskɔːrpiəs/, genitive /ˈskɔːrpiaɪ/ Symbolism the Scorpion Right ascension...

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Old Church Slavonic grammar
Minggu, 2026-03-29 23:24:46

after five, and with certain pronouns, in the form of the partitive genitive. The genitive may be used as the complement of the 'verb to' to denote possession...

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Etruscan language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 08:49:21

vowel or consonant: Aplu (Apollo), Paχa (Bacchus), or Turan. Genitive case The genitive case had two main functions in Etruscan: the usual meaning of...

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Western Armenian
Jumat, 2026-05-08 02:06:47

the genitive is formed. There are several declensions, the first three (genitive in i, u, and a respectively) being the most common. The genitive in i...

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Case role
Sabtu, 2024-09-28 21:31:13

in many languages) The possessor case role (genitive in many languages) The partitive case role (genitive or partitive in many languages) The instrument...

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Hercules (constellation)
Senin, 2026-05-25 09:55:00

Constellation List of stars in Hercules Abbreviation Her Genitive Herculis Pronunciation /ˈhɜːrkjʊliːz/, genitive /ˈhɜːrkjʊlɪs/ Symbolism Heracles Right ascension...

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Skolt Sámi
Minggu, 2026-05-24 21:04:16

looks the same as the genitive singular. The genitive singular is unmarked and looks the same as the nominative plural. The genitive plural is marked by...

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Elephant
Selasa, 2026-05-12 18:45:57

Latin word elephas (genitive elephantis) 'elephant', which is the Latinised form of the ancient Greek ἐλέφας (elephas) (genitive ἐλέφαντος (elephantos...

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Porohanon language
Rabu, 2025-07-09 15:47:40

retains many older features that Cebuano has lost, such as the use of the genitive marker ahead of the second member of a compounded form, the distinction...

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Irish language
Kamis, 2026-06-04 05:27:30

1948, in which the silent ⟨dh⟩ was removed. Gaedhilge was originally the genitive of Gaedhealg, the form used in Classical Gaelic. Older spellings include...

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Saʽidi Arabic
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:02:25

migrants who have also adapted to Egyptian Arabic. For example, the Ṣaʽīdi genitive exponent is usually replaced with Egyptian bitāʿ, but the realisation of...

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Specific name (zoology)
Rabu, 2026-05-27 14:23:25

of another organism which the organism itself resembles. A noun in the genitive case (i.e. belonging to). This is common in parasites: Xenos vesparum ("Stranger...

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Arabic
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:31:51

Literary Arabic have three grammatical cases (nominative, accusative, and genitive [also used when the noun is governed by a preposition]); three numbers...

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Latin
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 18:03:23

people"; "a number of gifts": people and gifts would be in the genitive case. Some nouns are genitive with special verbs and adjectives: The cup is full of wine...

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Capricornus
Senin, 2026-05-25 11:49:19

List of stars in Capricornus Abbreviation Cap Genitive Capricorni Pronunciation /ˌkæprɪˈkɔːrnəs/, genitive /ˌkæprɪˈkɔːrnaɪ/ Symbolism the Sea-Goat Right...

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Latino sine flexione
Minggu, 2026-05-24 08:36:49

any Latin dictionary (by getting the thematic vowel of the stem from the genitive ending, that is: -a -o -e -u -e from -ae -i -is -us -ei). Finally, a large...

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Lions Square
Minggu, 2025-01-05 05:57:25

commonly known as Lions Square (Greek: Πλατεία Λεόντων) or Leonton Square (genitive), after the Venetian-era Morosini Fountain (popularly called "τα Λιοντάρια"...

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Luwian language
Rabu, 2026-03-25 06:59:14

Luwian the possessive suffix -assa is used for the genitive singular and -assanz- is used for the genitive plural. In hieroglyphic Luwian, as in Hittite,...

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Pronouns in Japanese
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 11:26:58

that ends in -re, and a "short" form without -re. When combining with a genitive particle, the short forms of personal pronouns, as well as animate nouns...

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Grammatical category
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 07:24:10

suffixal: rosa, rosae, rosae, rosam, rosa, rosā ("rose", in the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative and ablative). Categories can also pertain...

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Georgian grammar
Selasa, 2026-02-03 09:32:16

with the verb system. The non-core cases are genitive, instrumental, adverbial and vocative. The genitive case is the equivalent of the preposition of...

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Nukuoro language
Kamis, 2025-11-06 04:43:49

singular, dual, and plural, as well as inclusive and exclusive we. The genitive pronouns are built off the basic pronoun paradigm. The a/o distinction...

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Fiona
Senin, 2026-05-25 16:23:45

means white or fair, while the Irish name Fíona means 'of wine', being the genitive of fíon 'wine'. It was first used by the Scottish writer James Macpherson...

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Dukaism
Senin, 2026-05-11 04:09:29

Pronouns Adjectives Proper names Nominative onu ładnu Słowiński Genitive jenu / nu / nienu ładnu Słowińskienu Dative jewu / wu ładnu Słowińskienu Accusative...

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Latvian prepositions
Kamis, 2025-01-23 18:19:30

across pretī - in front of, against The following postpositions govern the genitive case, in both singular and plural: dēļ - through, of, for labad - for,...

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Hydra (constellation)
Selasa, 2026-05-26 22:51:18

Constellation List of stars in Hydra Abbreviation Hya Genitive Hydrae Pronunciation /ˈhaɪdrə/ genitive /ˈhaɪdriː/ Symbolism the sea serpent Right ascension...

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Gemini (constellation)
Senin, 2026-05-25 11:27:50

Constellation List of stars in Gemini Abbreviation Gem Genitive Geminorum Pronunciation /ˈdʒɛmɪˌnaɪ/ JEM-ih-ny genitive /ˌdʒɛmɪˈnɔːrəm/ JEM-ih-NOR-əm Symbolism the...

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Iḍāfah
Jumat, 2026-04-24 02:01:14

of Arabic which mark grammatical case, this second noun must be in the genitive case. The construction is typically equivalent to the English construction...

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Adjective
Rabu, 2026-05-20 17:23:10

(as are native verbs), although nouns (an open class) may be used in the genitive to convey some adjectival meanings, and there is also the separate open...

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Serpens
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 10:06:36

Constellation List of stars in Serpens Abbreviation Ser Genitive Serpentis Pronunciation /ˈsɜːrpɪnz/, genitive /sərˈpɛntɪs/ Symbolism the Snake Right ascension...

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Mors (mythology)
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 04:09:00

the Greek Thanatos.[citation needed] The Latin noun for "death," mors, genitive mortis, is of feminine gender, but surviving ancient Roman art is not known...

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Ancient Greek
Minggu, 2026-05-24 22:23:47

stops were lost, as in γάλα "milk", compared with γάλακτος "of milk" (genitive). Ancient Greek of the classical period also differed in both the inventory...

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Virgo (constellation)
Minggu, 2026-04-12 05:11:16

Constellation List of stars in Virgo Abbreviation Vir Genitive Virginis Pronunciation /ˈvɜːrɡoʊ/, genitive /ˈvɜːrdʒɪnɪs/ Symbolism the Maiden Right ascension...

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Binomial nomenclature
Minggu, 2026-05-17 21:39:57

masculine. The second part of a binomial may be a noun in the genitive (possessive) case. The genitive case is constructed in a number of ways in Latin, depending...

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Urum language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 01:55:44

cases: Nominative: M'en büyük çöl'e s'evnıyım — I admire the vast steppe. Genitive: Oların el'leri — Their hands. Accusative: S'en almanı aşaysın/yeyisin...

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Tocharian A
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 17:43:42

Case Tocharian A Suffix Singular Plural Nominative — yuk yukañ Genitive — yukes yukāśśi Oblique — yuk yukas Instrumental -yo yukyo yukasyo Perlative -ā...

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Eblaite language
Minggu, 2026-02-08 21:18:54

covering both syntactical relationships like the nominative, accusative, and genitive cases, but also more concrete relationships like the dative and locative...

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Vlad the Impaler
Senin, 2026-05-25 05:52:26

he became a member of the Order of the Dragon. Dracula is the Slavonic genitive form of Dracul, meaning "[the son] of Dracul (of the Dragon)". In modern...

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Eyjafjallajökull
Jumat, 2026-05-29 05:17:32

Vestmannaeyjar. The word fjalla [ˈfjatla] is the genitive plural of fjöll, and so Eyjafjalla [ˈeiːjaˌfjatla] is the genitive form of Eyjafjöll and means: "of the...

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Meitei grammar
Rabu, 2025-12-03 09:25:55

Description Nominative case -na mi-na a man (mi alone is often used). Genitive case -gi mi-gi of a man. Dative case -da mi-da (also mingonda*) to a man...

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Old Saxon
Jumat, 2026-05-08 21:49:22

was fully inflected with five grammatical cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and instrumental), three grammatical numbers (singular, plural...

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Numismatist
Senin, 2026-04-27 09:18:11

collector of numismatics/coins ("of coins"; from Late Latin numismatis, genitive of numisma). Numismatists can include collectors, specialist dealers, and...

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Early New High German
Senin, 2025-10-20 03:13:34

of formal and official writing. Attributive genitive: the so-called "Saxon genitive", in which the genitive phrase precedes the noun (e.g. der sunnen schein...

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Lir
Jumat, 2025-10-31 06:36:24

or Ler (meaning "Sea" in Old Irish; Ler and Lir are the nominative and genitive forms, respectively) is a sea god in Irish mythology. His name suggests...

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Democracy in China
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 23:38:17

a genitive noun phrase which would translate to "people's lord;" or a subject–verb phrase which would translate to "the people govern." The genitive-noun-phrase...

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Old Arabic
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 01:35:31

vowels had been lost, obliterating the distinction between nominative and genitive case in the singular, leaving the accusative the only marked case. Besides...

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Proto-Austronesian language
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 21:24:02

*[S]aku) Accusative (e.g., PAN *i-ak-ən) Genitive 1 (e.g., PAN *=[a]ku) Genitive 2 (e.g., PAN *(=)m-aku) Genitive 3 (e.g., PAN *n-aku) The following is from...

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Quechuan languages
Rabu, 2026-04-22 10:15:41

without the house dative/benefactive -paq/-pax/-paa wasipaq to/for the house genitive -p(a) wasip(a) the house's causative -rayku wasirayku because of the house...

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Swedish grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-26 06:24:13

accusative and dative form) and genitive forms. Nouns make no distinction between subject and object forms, and the genitive is formed by adding -s to the...

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Droid (Star Wars)
Senin, 2026-05-18 08:48:43

"androīdēs", meaning "manlike", itself from the Ancient Greek ἀνδρος (andrós) (genitive of ἀνήρ (anḗr), "man (adult male)" or "human being") + -ειδής (-eidḗs)...

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Cordelia
Minggu, 2026-02-22 07:43:30

name is of uncertain origin. It is popularly associated with Latin cor (genitive cordis) "heart", and has also been linked with the Welsh name Creiddylad...

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English grammar
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 15:23:43

function is indicated only by word order, by prepositions, and by the "Saxon genitive or English possessive" (-'s). Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are...

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Lacrimae rerum
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 04:55:54

are tears for [or 'of'] things and mortal things touch the mind.") The genitive "rerum" can be construed as "objective" or "subjective". The scholar David...

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Vikings
Kamis, 2026-06-04 09:22:40

2015 at the Wayback Machine In the nominative: krikiaR (G216). In the genitive: girkha (U922$), k—ika (U104). In the dative: girkium (U1087†), kirikium...

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My
Rabu, 2025-07-16 09:43:01

MAXjet Airways, United States, defunct IATA airline designation My, the genitive form of the English pronoun I Malaysia, ISO 3166-1 country code .my, the...

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Lower Sorbian language
Selasa, 2026-05-19 11:50:04

endings may be dropped: -eg instead of -ego (genitive singular masculine and neuter) -ej instead of -eje (genitive singular feminine) -em instead of -emu (dative...

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Proto-Indo-European language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:32:59

the noun. accusative: used for the direct object of a transitive verb. genitive: marks a noun as modifying another noun. dative: used to indicate the indirect...

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Irish name
Minggu, 2026-05-17 17:11:25

followed by the father and the paternal grandfather's name, both in the genitive case, e.g. Seán Ó Cathasaigh (Seán O'Casey), son of Pól, son of Séamus...

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Novus ordo seclorum
Minggu, 2026-01-25 10:53:03

short by position. The word seclorum does not mean "secular", but is the genitive (possessive) plural form of the word saeculum, meaning (in this context)...

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West Slavic languages
Rabu, 2026-05-20 22:49:30

the genitive form *čьso to nominative and accusative in place of čь(to), leading to Polish/Czech co ("what", compare Russian что; OCS чьто, genitive чьсо)...

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Kyriakos (name)
Kamis, 2026-04-23 02:15:41

is Kyriacos and Cyriacus. A similar surname, which is Kyriakos in the genitive, is Kyriakou. Other people with the name include: Kyriakos of Makuria,...

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Pleroma
Kamis, 2026-05-14 23:06:57

hettema Romans 11:12). A further ambiguity arises when it is joined with a genitive, which may be either subjective or objective, the fullness which one thing...

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Scutum (constellation)
Kamis, 2026-05-28 01:40:17

Constellation List of stars in Scutum Abbreviation Sct Genitive Scuti Pronunciation /ˈskjuːtəm/, genitive /ˈskjuːtaɪ/ Symbolism the Shield of John III Sobieski...

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Septuagint
Senin, 2026-06-01 19:41:08

canon, but originally included in the LXX. Βασιλειῶν (Basileiōn) is the genitive plural of Βασιλεία (Basileia). That is, Of things set aside from Ἔσδρας...

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Demotic Egyptian language
Rabu, 2026-05-27 13:20:21

article, such as in expressions of time, or with body part nouns in a direct genitive construction: n at grḥ night n grḥ at night 'at night' jrṱ=f eye=3SG jrṱ=f...

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Lithuanian litas
Minggu, 2026-05-24 02:54:20

litų (genitive) was the currency of Lithuania, until 1 January 2015, when it was replaced by the euro. It was divided into 100 centų (genitive case; singular...

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Word stem
Kamis, 2026-03-05 13:35:10

grammar. For example, the genitive singular is formed by adding -is (Latin) or -ος (Greek) to the oblique stem, and the genitive singular is conventionally...

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Wenja language
Minggu, 2026-05-17 05:59:23

Wenja postpositions Meaning Example -(i)s of (genitive) ti-mashtaris mashtarha haymas, "we're going with your mother's mother" -i/-y to, for (dative) shash...

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Wede
Senin, 2026-02-09 03:20:24

objects and for directions, and the genitive, using fon, for showing origin and possession. Apart from using fon, the genitive construction could also be expressed...

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Ukrainian phonology
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:44:56

consonants are distinguished based on gemination: па́на /'pana/ "sir (genitive)" vs па́нна /'panːa/ "lady". Ukrainian has the six monophthong phonemes...

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Pater familias
Minggu, 2026-05-31 14:15:20

preserving the old genitive ending in -ās (see Latin declension), whereas in classical Latin the normal first declension genitive singular ending was...

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Dutch language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 18:23:22

actually the genitive ending of the weak noun. Similarly in some place names: ‌'s-Gravenbrakel, ‌'s-Hertogenbosch, etc. (with weak genitives of graaf "count"...

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Dis Pater
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 09:33:27

Dis Pater (/ˌdɪs ˈpeɪtər/; Latin: [diːs patɛr]; genitive Ditis Patris, lit. the "Rich Patriarch"), otherwise known as Rex Infernus or Pluto, is a Roman...

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Ossetian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 05:56:27

endings is the genitive case form. The 1st and 2nd persons plural have only one stem each, functioning as both nominative and genitive. The third person...

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Sabtu, 2025-05-31 16:33:55

Rí, or commonly ríg (genitive), is an ancient Gaelic word meaning 'king'. It is used in historical texts referring to the Irish and Scottish kings, and...

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Persian nouns
Selasa, 2026-03-24 23:17:00

possessed, the ezafe may be used; otherwise, alternatively, a pronominal genitive enclitic is employed. The اضافه (ezafe) (ez) construction denotes certain...

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Italo-Celtic languages
Selasa, 2026-05-12 03:59:36

traces of the -osyo genitive of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) have also been discovered, which might indicate that the spread of the ī genitive occurred in the...

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Dothraki language
Selasa, 2026-02-10 13:25:19

inanimate and animate. They decline in five cases, nominative, accusative, genitive, allative and ablative. Animate nouns also decline according to number...

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German honorifics
Minggu, 2026-04-19 21:07:10

polite personal pronoun "Sie": Nominative case: Sie Accusative case: Sie Genitive case: Ihrer Dative case: Ihnen Declension of polite possessive adjectives:...

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Ukrainian grammar
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:35:17

follows (N or G refers to respectively nominative or genitive. Usually, animate subjects take the genitive form, while inanimate subjects take the nominative...

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Underspecification
Jumat, 2026-03-06 22:41:07

nominative/accusative and plural cells, and der occurs in genitive/dative feminine as well as genitive plural. Some underspecification-based accounts propose...

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Possessive antecedent
Senin, 2026-04-06 08:07:47

In English grammar, a pronoun has a possessive antecedent if its antecedent (the noun that it refers to) appears in the possessive case; for example, in...

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Scottish Gaelic grammar
Rabu, 2026-05-20 21:51:54

→ (a) Aonghais In the genitive construction, the genitive follows the word it governs: taigh m' athar house my father (genitive) "my father's house"....

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English nouns
Selasa, 2026-03-17 02:57:09

the same person or people. Genitives are used for possession, belonging, sources, ancestry, etc. The independent genitive typically forms a noun phrase...

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Katla language
Selasa, 2025-01-28 06:21:30

therefore change in their plural form. In some cases Katla places the genitive after the subject, as in other Sudanese languages: ‚u gbalana‘ " the dog’s...

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Greek name
Kamis, 2026-06-04 09:17:07

formal Ioannis but Eleftheriou is an archaic genitive. For women, the surname is usually a Katharevousa genitive of a male name, whereas back in Byzantine...

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Nicolaism
Senin, 2026-05-18 03:05:12

teaching of the Nicolaites". In the original Greek, they are called, in genitive, Νικολαϊτῶν (Nikolaïtōn). Several of the early Church Fathers mentioned...

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Personal pronouns in Austronesian languages
Minggu, 2026-03-15 03:18:02

*[S]aku) Accusative (e.g., PAN *i-ak-ən) Genitive 1 (e.g., PAN *=[a]ku) Genitive 2 (e.g., PAN *(=)m-aku) Genitive 3 (e.g., PAN *n-aku) The following is from...

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Kenning
Kamis, 2026-06-04 03:31:41

and ignorant, and Greek gnosis. Old Norse kennings take the form of a genitive phrase (báru fákr 'wave's horse' = 'ship' (Þorbjörn Hornklofi: Glymdrápa...

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List of Greek deities
Minggu, 2026-05-31 23:39:46

oracular site of Dodona, and the name Dione is a feminine version of Zeus (genitive: Dios). Eos The goddess of the dawn, and the daughter of Hyperion and Theia...

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Inanimate whose
Minggu, 2026-04-12 17:27:04

18th century has drawn criticism from those who consider whose to be the genitive (possessive) only of the relative pronoun who and therefore believe it...

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Eteocypriot language
Senin, 2026-05-25 10:23:28

Bronze Age Cyprus, as both Cypro-Minoan and Eteocypriot share a common genitive suffix -o-ti. Several hundred inscriptions written in the Cypriot syllabary...

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Crux
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 03:12:37

Constellation List of stars in Crux Abbreviation Cru Genitive Crucis Pronunciation /krʌks/ KRUKS, genitive /ˈkruːsɪs/ KROO-siss Symbolism Southern Cross Right...

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Fewer versus less
Jumat, 2026-04-24 03:04:52

"quasi-substantive" adverb læs and the genitive worda ("less of words") (cf. plenty of words and *plenty words). When the genitive plural ceased to exist, less...

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Nomina sacra
Rabu, 2026-04-08 20:04:15

developed Byzantine usage the fifteen nomina sacra in their nominative and genitive forms are as follows: [...] Scholars differ in accounting for the origin...

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Hurrian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 00:56:59

unmarked. When more than two genitives occur, they are merged, so Suffixaufnahme only occurs on the innermost genitive, as in the following example:...

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Övdalian
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 15:59:53

been lost in indefinite nouns,[clarification needed] and the inherited genitive been replaced by new forms created by attaching -es to the dative (see...

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Lhasa Tibetan
Selasa, 2026-06-02 03:18:44

linked by a genitive particle objects and adverbs precede the verb, as do adjectives in copular clauses a noun marked with the genitive case precedes...

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Classical Arabic
Rabu, 2026-04-22 01:17:48

Arabic at that time, obliterating the distinction between nominative and genitive case in the singular, leaving the accusative the only marked case: Classical...

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Castiglione (surname)
Senin, 2026-01-19 02:24:49

of numerous places named with this word, from medieval Latin castellio (genitive castellionis) ‘fortification’, ‘small castle’. People with the surname...

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Bawn
Senin, 2025-06-30 18:44:01

plural is ba. The Irish word for "stronghold, enclosure" is dún, whose genitive case is dúin. The original purpose of bawns was to protect cattle from...

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Aries (constellation)
Selasa, 2026-05-05 06:06:52

Constellation List of stars in Aries Abbreviation Ari Genitive Arietis Pronunciation /ˈɛəriːz/ , genitive /əˈraɪətəs/, /ˌæriˈɛtəs/ Symbolism the Ram Right...

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Quantifier (linguistics)
Minggu, 2026-02-15 19:13:59

Pure intersective Relative subsective Subsective Adverb Conjunctive Flat Genitive Interrogative Locative Prepositional Pronominal Relative Pronoun Bound...

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Russian language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 16:07:37

personal pronouns and adjectives: nominative (for the grammatical subject), genitive (to indicate possession, relation or absence), dative (for indirect objects)...

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Ingush language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 17:24:15

in-depth analysis of the language shows eight cases: absolutive, ergative, genitive, dative, allative, instrumental, lative and comparative. The choice of...

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Basque grammar
Senin, 2026-03-09 16:27:33

red-ART are 'Mine are red.' Noun phrases are turned into genitives by the addition of one of two genitive case suffixes, -(r)en or -ko (see below on declension...

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Partitive
Senin, 2026-05-04 16:27:18

and Russian, the partitive is expressed by the genitive case, sometimes called the partitive genitive. Partitives can be distinguished semantically based...

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Oblique case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:22:39

preposition (except in possessives): That picture of me was blurry. (cf. double genitive as in That picture of mine was stolen.) in copular deixis: [referring to...

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Ui (hangul)
Jumat, 2026-04-03 03:43:25

hangul. It makes the 'ui' (/ɯi/) sound for most Korean words, for the genitive case marker '의', it makes the /e/ sound. Look up ㅢ in Wiktionary, the free...

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Ge (Cyrillic)
Kamis, 2026-05-21 22:57:22

always pronounced [box] in the nominative case. In the Russian nominal genitive ending -ого, -его, ghe represents [v], including in the word сегодня ("today"...

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Libra (constellation)
Rabu, 2026-04-08 02:25:14

Constellation List of stars in Libra Abbreviation Lib Genitive Librae Pronunciation /ˈliːbrə/, genitive /ˈliːbriː/ Symbolism the balance Right ascension 15h...

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Eastern Armenian
Kamis, 2026-04-23 22:15:13

Armenian is based on how the genitive is formed. There are several declensions, but two are the most used (genitive in i, and genitive in u): Two notes: First...

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Frigg
Senin, 2026-05-04 22:02:09

Frigg (Old Norse: Frigg, /frɪɡ/, [ˈfriɡː], Old Swedish: Frigg, genitive: Friggiar, etc, Early Modern Swedish: Frigg etc; Old English: Frīg; Old Saxon:...

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Lithuanian grammar
Minggu, 2026-05-10 07:29:04

singular (a word vieneri – 'one' only) of the noun. Nominative – vardininkas Genitive – kilmininkas; it also functions similarly to the ablative case in other...

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Dzongkha
Jumat, 2026-05-29 01:02:55

cases: genitive, locative, ablative, dative and ergative. genitive case: marks possession and is often translated as "of". There are 4 genitive suffixes...

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Ablative case
Rabu, 2025-11-12 08:33:55

thereafter with some of its functions taken by the genitive and others by the dative. The genitive case with the prepositions ἀπό apó 'away from' and...

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Old Swedish
Selasa, 2026-06-02 15:31:38

pronouns and certain numerals were inflected in four cases: nominative, genitive, dative and accusative. The writing of the Westrogothic law marked the...

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Canis Major
Senin, 2026-05-25 11:52:38

stars in Canis Major Abbreviation CMa Genitive Canis Majoris Pronunciation /ˌkeɪnɪs ˈmeɪdʒər/ KAY-niss MAY-jər, genitive /ˌkeɪnɪs məˈdʒɔːrɪs/ KAY-niss mə-JOR-iss...

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Centaurus
Rabu, 2026-04-08 02:19:45

stars in Centaurus Abbreviation Cen Genitive Centauri Pronunciation /sɛnˈtɔːrəs, -ˈtɑːr-/ sen-TOR-əss, -⁠TAR-, genitive /sɛnˈtɔːraɪ, -ˈtɔːri, -ˈtɑːri/ sen-TOR-eye...

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Czech language
Senin, 2026-05-11 16:48:33

The remaining cases (genitive, dative, locative and instrumental) indicate semantic relationships, such as noun adjuncts (genitive), indirect objects (dative)...

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Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Minggu, 2026-05-24 08:12:23

Koine and Modern), this can be done by placing the compared noun in the genitive case. With superlatives, the population being considered may be explicitly...

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Sanskrit nominals
Kamis, 2026-04-30 19:16:37

transitive verb. ablative: used to express motion away from something. genitive: marks a noun as modifying another noun. locative: corresponds vaguely...

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Andromeda (constellation)
Kamis, 2026-04-09 22:30:51

Constellation List of stars in Andromeda Abbreviation And Genitive Andromedae Pronunciation /ænˈdrɒmɪdə/ genitive /ænˈdrɒmɪdiː/ Symbolism Andromeda, the Chained...

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Grammatical particle
Jumat, 2026-04-24 22:54:55

PTCL.INF eat 'You must remember to eat' se or van: Both se and van are genitive particles, e.g. Peter Peter se PTCL.GEN boek book Peter se boek Peter PTCL...

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Axlar-Björn
Senin, 2026-05-11 09:13:02

the history of Iceland. He was nicknamed Axlar-Björn, with Axlar being genitive of Öxl, his place of residence. Axlar-Björn was the youngest of three children...

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Prasun language
Minggu, 2026-05-24 01:02:53

Person Nominative Accusative Genitive 1st sg. unzu ândeiš am pl. âsẽ âs 2nd sg. üy ütyöiš ĩ pl. miū âsen...

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Periodontology
Minggu, 2026-05-31 02:07:43

(from Ancient Greek περί, perí – 'around'; and ὀδούς, odoús – 'tooth', genitive ὀδόντος, odóntos) is the specialty of dentistry that studies supporting...

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I (Cyrillic)
Senin, 2026-05-18 14:32:18

can be unstressed as well, which then represents the plural form of the genitive case to distinguish from other similar forms. Modern Church Slavonic orthography...

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Pluto (mythology)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:10:20

descent of Orpheus or other heroes to the underworld. Plūtō ([ˈpluːtoː]; genitive Plūtōnis) is the Latinized form of the Greek Plouton. Pluto's Roman equivalent...

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Tyrsenian languages
Kamis, 2026-06-04 17:36:27

akvil 'gift' zinace t'inache 'he made' -s -s -'s     (genitive suffix) -(i)a -a -'s     (second genitive case suffix) -ce -ku -ed   (past active participle)...

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Inari Sámi language
Sabtu, 2026-01-31 01:02:27

*ahán). Inari Sámi has nine cases, although the genitive and accusative are often the same: Nominative Genitive Accusative Locative Illative Comitative Abessive...

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Lardil language
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 15:15:51

via 'double-expression' of Genitive case: ngada 'I' > ngithun 'I(gen) = my' > ngithunngan 'I(gen)+gen = on me'. The genitive morpheme (-kan ~ -ngan) marks...

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Northern Indo-Aryan languages
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 09:30:50

of the Sindhi genitive postposition jo. In all Indo-Aryan languages, the dative postposition is by origin the locative of some genitive one. In vocabulary...

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Hinuq language
Rabu, 2026-02-11 22:42:33

into the air' Hinuq has two genitive suffixes: First (direct) Genitive, and Second (oblique) Genitive. The First Genitive has the suffix -s (or -š if...

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The Hague
Selasa, 2026-06-02 16:13:58

pronunciation: [ˌsxraːvə(n)ˈɦaːɣə] . 's is an abbreviated form of the genitive article des, while den is a fossilised dative article (see archaic Dutch...

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Aria (name)
Rabu, 2026-04-08 22:59:20

Viraf. The Proto-Iranian term for Iran is reconstructed as *Aryānām (the genitive plural of the word *Arya); the Avestan equivalent is Airyanem (as in Airyanem...

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A grain of salt
Senin, 2026-04-13 00:55:54

("after having added a grain of salt"). The Latin word sal (salis is the genitive) means both "salt" and "wit", thus the Latin phrase cum grano salis could...

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Taurus (constellation)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 21:45:23

Constellation List of stars in Taurus Abbreviation Tau Genitive Tauri Pronunciation /ˈtɔːrəs/ TOR-əs; genitive /ˈtɔːraɪ/ TOR-eye Symbolism the Bull Right ascension...

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Aix (bird)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:57:36

duck (Aix sponsa), and the mandarin duck (Aix galericulata). Aix (αἴξ, genitive αἰγός) is an Ancient Greek word used by Aristotle to refer to an unknown...

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Leo (constellation)
Selasa, 2026-04-21 10:04:04

Constellation List of stars in Leo Abbreviation Leo Genitive Leonis Pronunciation /ˈliːoʊ/, genitive /liːˈoʊnɪs/ Symbolism the Lion Right ascension 11h...

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Respective case
Selasa, 2025-06-03 17:09:39

Possession, companion, instrument Abessive Caritive Comitative Dative Genitive Instrumental -comitative Ornative Possessed Possessive Privative Sociative...

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Borr
Jumat, 2026-05-15 03:13:26

mountain chain is probably the Caucasus, called by the Persians Borz (the genitive of the Old Norse Borr). Bör's wife, Belsta or Bestla, a daughter of the...

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Nabataean Arabic
Senin, 2026-06-01 17:02:47

Proto-Arabic (unattested) Triptote Diptote Dual Plural Masculine Feminine Nominative -un -u -āni -ūna -ātun Accusative -an -a -ayni -īna -ātin Genitive -in...

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Old Saxon grammar
Rabu, 2026-05-20 17:11:44

were fully inflected with five grammatical cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and instrumental), two grammatical numbers (singular and plural)...

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Pronouns in Colognian
Minggu, 2026-03-15 03:18:18

Example: minge kanns de han (you can have mine) One of the Cologinan genitives, namely the form having to precede its referent, can also be described...

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Instrumental case
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 09:34:56

I go (using any kind of vehicle) škola = school, do školy = to school (genitive) autobus = a bus → autobusem = by bus The instrumental in Armenian is denoted...

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Lule Sámi
Selasa, 2026-05-12 22:46:40

genitive singular. The genitive singular is unmarked and looks the same as the nominative plural. The genitive plural is marked by a -j. The genitive...

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Tensor fasciae latae muscle
Minggu, 2026-04-05 00:28:06

term for "of the band" and is in the singular genitive case. "Latae" is the respective singular, genitive, feminine form of the Latin adjective "latus"...

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Harstad (town)
Selasa, 2026-04-14 00:00:42

built where the farm once was located. The first element is (probably) the genitive case of the male name Hǫrðr. The last element is staðir which means "homestead"...

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Rhaetic
Senin, 2026-01-12 19:54:23

in Rhaetic: Nominative/Accusative: No ending Genitive: Ending -s Pertinentive (locative to the genitive): Endings -si and -(a-)le Locative: Ending -i...

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Allomorph
Selasa, 2026-05-19 10:03:33

into /a/ made the alternation unpredictable on phonetic grounds in the genitive case (both singular and plural) as well as the nominative plural and the...

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Cassiopeia (constellation)
Kamis, 2026-05-28 19:46:53

Abbreviation Cas Genitive Cassiopeiae Pronunciation /ˌkæsiəˈpiːə, -sioʊ-/ Cássiopéia, esp. for the constellation also /ˌkæsiˈoʊpiə/ Cássiópeia; genitive /ˌkæsiəˈpiːaɪ...

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Tatar language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:33:51

endings Nominative (баш килеш) – Accusative (төшем килеше) -ны -nı -н -n Genitive (иялек килеше) -ның -nıñ Dative (юнәлеш килеше) -га -ğa -ка -qa -а, -на...

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Chakobsa (Dune)
Jumat, 2026-05-15 03:45:36

Chakobsa syllabary. Chakobsa nouns have six cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, locative, allative, and ablative. Adjectives typically follow the nouns...

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Proto-Germanic language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 01:53:28

instrumental, genitive. The locative case had merged into the dative case, and the ablative may have merged with either the genitive, dative or instrumental...

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Dei
Senin, 2026-05-04 18:39:41

to: DEI, an abbreviation for diversity, equity, and inclusion Dei, the genitive singular of deus, the Latin word for "god" or "deity" Dei, dei, or DEI...

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Ethniu
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 19:24:14

ignorance has further confused the issue: the genitive form of Ethniu is Ethnenn (modern Eithneann) and the genitive of Ethliu is Ethlenn/Ethlinn (modern Eithleann...

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Swedish profanity
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 13:07:01

Some traditional profanities are commonly constructed as genitive attributes (using genitive suffix/enclitic -s) when used as an intensifier in combination...

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Possessive affix
Senin, 2026-03-23 00:05:31

or genitive case and plural objects in nominative case since käteni may mean either "my hand" (subject or direct object), "of my hand" (genitive) or...

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Finnish grammar
Kamis, 2026-05-14 23:41:36

there is no accusative case; instead, these words take the nominative or genitive in object positions (where they do not take the partitive). This differs...

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Partium
Selasa, 2025-05-27 00:22:57

Partium (from Latin partium, the genitive plural of pars "part, portion") or Részek (in Hungarian) was a historical and geographical region in the Kingdom...

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Carina (constellation)
Senin, 2026-05-25 11:48:16

of stars in Carina Abbreviation Car Genitive Carinae Pronunciation /kəˈraɪnə, kəˈriːnə/ kə-RY-nə, -⁠REE-, genitive /kəˈraɪniː/ kə-RY-nee Symbolism the...

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Gen
Selasa, 2026-04-07 10:10:09

Genesis General officer Generation#Western world as in GenX, GenZ, etc. Genitive case Gen may also refer to: Gen (2006 film), Turkish horror film directed...

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Basque surnames
Senin, 2026-04-27 19:03:08

surnames, for example ENNECONIS (the personal name Eneko plus the Latin genitive ending -IS, stem augmented by -N) > Enekoitz. Also SEMBECONNIS, possibly...

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South Picene language
Minggu, 2026-05-31 16:47:16

(singular and plural) and six attested cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, locative). Nouns in South Picene possess an innate grammatical...

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Allentiac language
Rabu, 2026-05-13 01:08:53

Mapudungun. The person of a possessor may be indicated by attaching the genitive case marker to a singular personal pronoun (cu-ch 'my', ca-ch 'your', and...

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Ossetra
Jumat, 2026-05-01 17:53:54

with a very rich flavor. The word Ossetra is the transcription of the genitive case form осетра (osetra, 'of sturgeon') of the Russian word осётр (osyotr...

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Latvian lats
Minggu, 2026-05-24 02:53:23

The Latvian lats (plural: lati, plural genitive: latu, second Latvian lats ISO 4217 currency code: LVL) was the currency of Latvia from 1922 until 1940...

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Uropi
Minggu, 2026-05-24 22:31:01

Uropi has a very limited declension with only two cases: nominative and genitive in the singular and the plural. Uropi substantives are divided into three...

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St Thomas' Hospital
Senin, 2026-06-01 20:51:41

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The use of the plural genitive s' in place of the singular genitive s's is fairly recent. The hospital newsletter in 2004...

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Tuvan language
Kamis, 2026-05-14 03:43:35

tevelerimden is 'from my camels'. Tuvan marks nouns with seven cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, dative, ablative, locative, and allative. The suffixes below...

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Odysseus
Rabu, 2026-06-03 14:49:15

Two late Hellenistic inscriptions were discovered bearing "ΟΔΥCCEOC" (genitive) and "ΟΔΥCCEI" (dative). These align with a 1930s inscription from the...

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Phrygian language
Minggu, 2026-05-17 14:34:17

dual forms are not known. Four cases are known: nominative, accusative, genitive, and dative. Nouns belong to three stem groups: o-stems, a-stems, and consonant...

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Â
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:42:38

syllable length. That is most common in the plural genitive case and so it is also called "genitive sign": "Ja sam sâm" (English: I am alone). Â is used...

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Chechen language
Selasa, 2026-05-05 04:37:48

accuracy. All vowels may be nasalized. Nasalization is imposed by the genitive, infinitive, and for some speakers the nominative case of adjectives. Nasalization...

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Hittite language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:35:42

opposition. Hittite inflects for nine cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative-locative, ablative, ergative, allative, and instrumental; two numbers:...

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Matsés language
Selasa, 2026-04-21 22:43:29

require the possessor to be marked as a genitive, some postpositions require their objects to be in the genitive case, if human. Together with coding ownership...

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Andreas
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 21:39:30

(Greek: Ἀνδρέας) is a name derived from the Greek noun ἀνήρ anēr, with genitive ἀνδρός andros, which means "man". See the article on Andrew for more information...

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Aquarius (constellation)
Selasa, 2026-05-12 01:34:42

Constellation List of stars in Aquarius Abbreviation Aqr Genitive Aquarii Pronunciation /əˈkwɛəriəs/ , genitive /əˈkwɛəriaɪ/ Symbolism the Water-Bearer Right ascension...

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Tabi'un
Rabu, 2026-03-18 02:50:35

(Arabic: اَلتَّابِعُونَ, 'followers' or 'successors', also accusative or genitive tābiʿīn اَلتَّابِعِينَ, singular tābiʿ تَابِعٌ) are the generation of Muslims...

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Serbo-Croatian
Selasa, 2026-06-02 11:24:20

riječima, riječima. There is an accentual difference between the genitive singular and genitive plural of masculine and neuter nouns, which are otherwise homonyms...

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Oromo language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 19:13:35

'earth', lafti Genitive The genitive is used for possession or "belonging"; it corresponds roughly to English of or -'s. The genitive is usually formed...

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Alba
Kamis, 2026-05-07 08:51:39

came to be used by Gaelic speakers in the form of Alba (dative Albainn, genitive Albann, now obsolete) as the name given to the former kingdom of the Picts...

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Palaic language
Sabtu, 2025-12-06 14:18:29

six cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, and locative. Old Hittite has the genitive singular suffix -aš circa 1600 BC (compare Proto-Indo-European...

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Cancer (constellation)
Rabu, 2026-05-27 10:55:12

Constellation List of stars in Cancer Abbreviation Cnc Genitive Cancri Pronunciation /ˈkænsər/, genitive /ˈkæŋkraɪ/ Symbolism the Crab Right ascension 07h...

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Reforms of Russian orthography
Minggu, 2026-05-17 18:27:27

Синод (synod) According to the 19th-century spelling prescriptions, the genitive ending of adjectives and participles was spelled -аго (or -яго after soft...

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Spurious diphthong
Kamis, 2026-04-16 00:55:18

Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory...

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Topic and comment
Selasa, 2026-03-03 18:39:15

theme in systemic functional grammar by Alvin Leong Iliev, Iv. The Russian Genitive of Negation and Its Japanese Counterpart. International Journal of Russian...

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Weak noun
Selasa, 2024-02-06 03:15:05

the same inflection except in the nominative singular and sometimes the genitive singular. German has many more weak nouns than English; for example, Bär...

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German articles
Minggu, 2025-05-18 17:35:05

(mixed) Masculine Feminine Neuter Plural Nominative ein eine ein - Accusative einen eine ein - Dative einem einer einem - Genitive eines einer eines -...

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Porthaon
Selasa, 2026-04-14 05:41:36

In Greek mythology, Porthaon (Ancient Greek: Πορθάων, genitive Πορθάονος), sometimes referred to as Parthaon or Portheus (seems related to the verb portheō...

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Mull of Kintyre
Minggu, 2026-05-31 08:01:32

'Rounded [or bare] Headland', where chinn and tìre are respectively the genitive forms of ceann 'head, headland' and tìr 'land, country', so 'Headland Country'...

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Adamant
Jumat, 2026-03-06 20:45:36

Latin diamas and Old French diamant. In ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adamas), genitive ἀδάμαντος (adamantos), literally 'unconquerable, untameable'. In those...

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Götaland
Jumat, 2026-04-10 12:39:47

plural construction and means the "lands of the Geats", where Göta- is the genitive plural of the ethnonym Göt (Geat). The interpretation that the neuter noun...

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Domus
Jumat, 2026-05-15 12:10:14

In ancient Rome, the domus (pl.: domūs, genitive: domūs or domī) was the type of town house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen during...

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Ancestors of Enlil
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 00:02:53

sources from Lagash. Grammatically, both names are appositive rather than genitive constructions, and therefore should be translated as “lady earth” and “lord...

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Lacerta
Kamis, 2026-05-28 11:22:53

Constellation List of stars in Lacerta Abbreviation Lac Genitive Lacertae Pronunciation /læˈsɜːrtə/, genitive /læˈsɜːrti/ Symbolism the Lizard Right ascension...

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Serbo-Croatian phonology
Sabtu, 2026-02-07 06:13:49

pronounce most unstressed long vowels as short, with some exceptions, such as genitive plural endings. Several Southern Serbian dialects, notably the dialect...

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Lechitic languages
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 08:49:53

tъnъ Replacement of č́ьto with co via the genitive singular č́ьso Use of the compound adjectival genitive and dative masculine/neuter singular endings...

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Thematic vowel
Minggu, 2026-04-12 19:43:25

the subject of the transitive verb looked as if it had the form of the genitive (a sigmatic case) if it were active, and as if it had the form of the instrumental...

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Benefactive case
Senin, 2026-04-06 08:02:00

dativus commodi. Basque has a benefactive case ending in -entzat, from the genitive -en and essive -tzat. Quechua is another example of a language with the...

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Modern Lhasa Tibetan grammar
Kamis, 2025-11-06 07:14:58

experiencer of an emotion. The genitive case marks possession and is often translated as "of". The form of the genitive suffix depends on the last sound...

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Inanna
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:26:57

Warka, Biblical Erech é-an-na means 'sanctuary' ('house' + 'Heaven' [An] + genitive) "According to Graham Cunningham (1997: p. 171) incantations are connected...

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Maryam (name)
Selasa, 2026-05-26 16:30:59

name of Mary mother of Jesus is also part of given names consisting of genitive constructions (idafa) in Ethiopian tradition, such as Haile Mariam "power...

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Tsez language
Jumat, 2026-04-10 05:19:13

the two genitive cases, the first is used as attribute to an absolutive head noun and the second to an oblique one. That means, that the Genitive 1 is used...

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Early Modern English
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:35:10

words beginning with a vowel or an h, as in mine eyes or thine hand. The genitives my, mine, thy, and thine are used as possessive adjectives before a noun...

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Lezgian language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 18:04:41

and village-PODIR run-AOR "She opened the door and ran into the village" Genitive case (ending -н [-n]; added to the Ergative): marks possession. It is also...

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Transitive verb
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 14:18:58

for a few verbs, instrumental case in non-negated sentences, and in the genitive case in negated sentences) OR Can undergo passive transformation For example...

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Ursa Major
Rabu, 2026-04-15 09:48:03

stars in Ursa Major Abbreviation UMa Genitive Ursae Majoris Pronunciation /ˌɜːrsə ˈmeɪdʒər/ UR-sə MAY-jər, genitive /ˌɜːrsiː məˈdʒɔːrɪs/ UR-see mə-JOR-iss...

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Vienna
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:04:34

do I know, who that was?"). Speakers of the dialect tend to avoid the genitive case. Vienna is regarded as the centre of LGBTQ+ life in Austria. The city...

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Vela (constellation)
Selasa, 2026-04-14 13:14:31

Constellation List of stars in Vela Abbreviation Vel Genitive Velorum Pronunciation /ˈviːlə/, genitive /vɪˈloʊrəm/ Symbolism the Sails Right ascension 9h...

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Royal formula of Parthian coinage
Kamis, 2025-02-13 21:40:35

basileis) ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ = the Great (genitive form) ΑΡΣΑΚΟΥ = Arsaces (genitive form) ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ = Euergetes, the Benefactor (genitive form) ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟΣ = Autokratōr...

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Sarutahiko Ōkami
Sabtu, 2025-05-03 22:40:09

Sarudabiko and Sadahiko. Although it is usually not written, the Japanese genitive case marker, -no, is often suffixed to his name in speech when it is followed...

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Photography
Senin, 2026-06-01 00:38:17

The word "photography" was created from the Greek roots φωτός (phōtós), genitive of φῶς (phōs), "light" and γραφή (graphé) "representation by means of lines"...

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Akuntsu language
Senin, 2026-05-18 10:01:45

inflection of any kind, nor is there any number inflection in the noun. The genitive constructions of Akuntsu are based on the combination of nouns in which...

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German language
Kamis, 2026-06-04 18:13:24

four cases for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative); three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and two numbers (singular...

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Elatha
Selasa, 2026-04-07 18:44:30

Elathan is used incorrectly by Squire and Lady Gregory, as Elathan is the genitive case of Elatha and means 'of Elatha'. According to Lady Gregory the etymology...

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Lynx (constellation)
Rabu, 2026-04-01 02:28:44

Constellation List of stars in Lynx Abbreviation Lyn Genitive Lyncis Pronunciation /ˈlɪŋks/, genitive /ˈlɪnsɪs/ Symbolism the Lynx Right ascension 8h Declination...

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Adposition
Jumat, 2026-05-01 02:18:28

depending on the meaning of the preposition (e.g., διά takes its object in the genitive or the accusative, depending on the meaning). Some languages have cases...

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Gora dialect
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 07:52:37

nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative, and instrumental. Nominative: Dōmà ni je ubava. Our house is good. Šo? Genitive: Dǒmà ni je...

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Aarhus
Rabu, 2026-06-03 23:47:28

headquarters there. Aarhus is a compound of the two Old Norse words; ár, genitive of á ("river", Modern Danish å), and oss ("mouth") referencing the city's...

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Cuneiform
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 00:57:06

reading is Hittite wātar "water", based on Akkadian mê "water (accusative-genitive case)". Another convention is that determinatives are written in superscript:...

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Telugu language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:37:19

termed masculine, feminine, and neuter) and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, vocative, instrumental, and locative). The basic word order in...

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Telugu grammar
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 15:02:55

colloquial Telugu. The genitive form of a noun is defaulted to its oblique stem, i.e., oblique stem of a noun serves as its genitive case by default, though...

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Constellation
Rabu, 2026-04-15 23:14:55

Flamsteed designation of a star, for example, consists of a number and the genitive form of the constellation's name. Other star patterns or groups called...

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He (letter)
Minggu, 2026-04-12 23:25:11

generally used in Hebrew to indicate the third-person feminine singular genitive marker. Today, such a pronunciation only occurs in religious contexts and...

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Proto-Baltic language
Minggu, 2026-05-31 07:21:41

been used only in their genitive form. The eigenvalue of plural and dual possessive pronouns was possibly expressed in the genitive case of plural personal...

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Verb
Selasa, 2026-05-12 10:20:36

Pure intersective Relative subsective Subsective Adverb Conjunctive Flat Genitive Interrogative Locative Prepositional Pronominal Relative Pronoun Bound...

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Yakut language
Kamis, 2026-05-21 21:27:37

literally means "to the mountain". Furthermore, (in addition to locative,) genitive and equative cases are lost as well. Yakut has eight grammatical cases:...

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Erin
Selasa, 2026-05-26 23:44:38

"Éirinn". "Éirinn" is the dative case of the Irish word for Ireland, "Éire", genitive "Éireann", the dative being used in prepositional phrases such as "go hÉirinn"...

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Infinitive (Ancient Greek)
Rabu, 2026-04-08 14:55:45

accusative case; used with the article, it may be in any case (nominative, genitive, dative and accusative). (b) It shows morphological formation according...

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Wagiman language
Selasa, 2026-04-28 22:36:04

pronouns, and oblique for accusative–dative pronouns. In the table above, genitive pronouns all end with -gin, which is separated orthographically by a hyphen...

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Adessive case
Sabtu, 2025-06-07 20:54:07

school, inside the building). In Estonian, the ending -l is added to the genitive case, e.g. laud (table) - laual (on the table). Besides the meaning "on"...

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Paiwan language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 10:37:27

shows genitive / partitive relationship; personal sing. = ni, personal plural = nia tua – shows that the relationship is neither equational nor genitive; personal...

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Subjunctive (Ancient Greek)
Kamis, 2025-10-02 22:42:25

Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory...

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Aequitas
Senin, 2025-11-03 20:09:19

Aequitas (genitive aequitatis) is the Latin concept of justice, equality, conformity, symmetry, or fairness. It is the origin of the English word "equity"...

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Kamigin language
Senin, 2024-11-11 06:03:25

grammatical features for Kinamiging. VOS, VSO word order prepositions genitives after noun heads articles, adjectives, and numerals before noun heads...

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Tamil language
Selasa, 2026-05-26 12:58:08

in Sanskrit. These were the nominative, accusative, dative, sociative, genitive, instrumental, locative, and ablative. Modern grammarians argue that this...

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Sanzhi language
Kamis, 2026-04-23 00:24:16

in number; and has for grammatical cases (absolutive, ergative, dative, genitive) in addition to many spatial cases. Typical of Northeast Cauccasian languages...

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Tetun language
Selasa, 2026-04-21 03:18:53

Tetun (Tetun [ˈt̪et̪un̪] ; Indonesian: Bahasa Tetun; Portuguese: Tétum [ˈtɛtũ]) is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Timor. It is one of...

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Arabic name
Jumat, 2026-05-22 15:01:05

A kunya is expressed by the use of abū (father) or umm (mother) in a genitive construction, i.e. "father of" or "mother of" as an honorific in place...

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Deus
Senin, 2026-04-27 22:08:58

Byzantine Empire. The name Amadeus translates to 'for love of God'. The genitive singular/nominative-vocative plural dei occurs in such phrases as Roman...

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Purépecha language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 00:20:54

grammatical suffixes like the plural -echa or -icha, the copula -i, or the genitive -iri. Vowel clusters are usually not the first two sounds of a word. Purépecha...

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Sanctum sanctorum
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 04:46:05

sanctum is the neuter form of the adjective "holy," and sanctorum is its genitive plural. Thus, the term sanctum sanctorum literally means "the holy [place/thing]...

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Valyrian languages
Jumat, 2026-05-15 10:13:58

NOM.PL "army" {} "armies" Nouns have eight cases—nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, instrumental, comitative and vocative, though the instrumental...

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Ursa Minor
Kamis, 2026-06-04 20:08:32

stars in Ursa Minor Abbreviation UMi Genitive Ursae Minoris Pronunciation /ˌɜːrsə ˈmaɪnər/ UR-sə MY-nər Genitive: /ˌɜːrsiː mɪˈnɔːrɪs/ UR-see min-OR-iss...

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Jussive mood
Selasa, 2025-12-16 10:17:52

Possession, companion, instrument Abessive Caritive Comitative Dative Genitive Instrumental -comitative Ornative Possessed Possessive Privative Sociative...

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Gilaki language
Jumat, 2026-05-22 08:40:18

(or, better, unmarked, as it can serve other grammatical functions), the genitive, and the (definite) accusative. The accusative form is often used to express...

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Tse (Cyrillic)
Jumat, 2026-02-27 10:05:32

ending -⟨ы⟩ of the plural number or the genitive case (птица nominative singular → птицы nominative plural or genitive singular), possessive suffix -⟨ин⟩ is...

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Greek in Australia
Jumat, 2025-10-24 10:02:28

neuter nouns in Greek. Greek surname conventions are that women use the genitive form of their family's last name typically until marriage, when they may...

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Meänkieli grammar
Senin, 2025-12-15 21:54:56

'houses'. Genitive case The genitive case is used to express ownership and it is made with the ending -n in the singular. However, the plural genitive has multiple...

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Israelian Hebrew
Selasa, 2025-10-21 01:14:41

typical of many Afroasiatic and especially Semitic languages, to indicate a genitive case relationship between nouns. In simple two-noun examples, the first...

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List of rivers of Mongolia
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 20:57:15

usually used for larger rivers. The Mongolian names also occasionally have a genitive construction, with the name of the river having the suffix -iin (-ийн)...

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Eli (name)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 22:16:55

as a name for the god of the Israelites, and -i is the suffix for the genitive form ("mine"). In the United States, the popularity of the given name Eli...

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Literary language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 22:21:16

the regular use of the genitive case and the simple past tense Präteritum in written language. In vernacular German, genitive phrases ("des Tages") are...

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Federal ministry (Germany)
Selasa, 2026-04-07 12:14:53

these still use the definite article before the name of the department ("genitive ministry", with the exception of the Foreign Office, while the others are...

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Balto-Slavic languages
Minggu, 2026-03-22 15:49:24

with accent patterns outside of Latvian. Replacement of the original PIE genitive singular ending of thematic (o-stem) nouns, which is reconstructed as *-osyo...

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Ordinal indicator
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 18:20:41

ablative case is generally used: Xo (decimo) with the month stated in the genitive case. Examples: Io (primo) die Julii "on the first day of July" Xo decimo...

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Cattle
Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:40:41

came via Old English cū (plural cȳ), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (genitive *gʷéws) 'a bovine animal', cf. Persian: gâv, Sanskrit: gó. In older English...

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Proto-Greek language
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:59:05

by *-ai and *-oi. the genitive and dative dual suffix *-oi(i)n (Arcadian -oiun) appears to be exclusive to Greek. the genitive singular Proto-Indo-European...

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Norwegian language
Selasa, 2026-04-21 23:21:48

they are treated as feminine nouns in every other way. In general, the genitive case has died out in modern Norwegian and there are only some remnants...

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Manx grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-05 23:31:51

distinct genitive form, usually ending in -ey, e.g. bleeaney "of a year" (nominative: blein), coshey "of a foot" (nominative: cass). Historical genitive singulars...

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's
Jumat, 2023-12-22 00:56:21

non-standard manner to form noun plurals 's, a contraction of the old Dutch genitive article des, appearing in names such as 's-Hertogenbosch All pages beginning...

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Greenberg's linguistic universals
Kamis, 2026-05-07 22:39:06

the subject precedes the object." "In languages with prepositions, the genitive almost always follows the governing noun, while in languages with postpositions...

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Bogdanov
Kamis, 2026-03-19 08:42:52

Bogdanova (Богданова), is a common Russian and Bulgarian surname, derived by a genitive inflection from the given name Bogdan. In a number of cases in the Russian...

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Hellas
Kamis, 2026-05-28 21:52:41

inhabitants know it by. Hellas, or Ellas may also refer to: Ἑλλάς (Ellás), genitive Ἑλλάδος (Elládos), an ancient Greek toponym used to refer to: The region...

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Phasianoidea
Senin, 2026-05-18 08:36:35

the elements of scientific Latin Phasian- and -oidea. The first is the genitive root of the name of its type genus, Phasianus; and the second is the ending...

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History of the Russian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 07:57:33

in object cases in modern Russian (genitive: и́нея, пыре́я), but у́лей "beehive" and чи́рей "furuncle" have genitive у́лья, чи́рья. Some yers in weak position...

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Ukrainian language
Selasa, 2026-05-12 01:27:28

neuter; nouns decline for:[citation needed] 7 cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental, locative, vocative; 2 numbers: singular, plural...

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Noun class
Jumat, 2026-02-13 11:02:47

-gan-, which is itself attached to the singular, plural, or indefinite genitive case ending. Alternatively, -gan- may attach to the absolutive case form...

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Mercian dialect
Rabu, 2025-12-10 21:50:36

stānen genitive: stānes, stāne Weak masculine noun name (name) nominative: name, namen accusative: namen/name, namen dative: namen/name, namen genitive: namen/name...

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Virgil
Minggu, 2026-05-24 22:30:05

Magius, and failure to distinguish the genitive form of this name (Magi) in Servius' life, from the genitive magi of the noun magus ("magician"), probably...

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Lycian language
Rabu, 2026-04-08 03:24:15

change): *h₁éḱwos to Luwian á-zú-wa/i-, Lycian esbe 'horse'. Replacement of genitive case with adjectives ending in -ahi or -ehi, Luwian -assi-. A preterite...

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Colognian grammar
Minggu, 2024-09-22 17:37:38

grammatical cases are distinguished: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and vocative. Genitive has two variants, either of which can also be described...

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Polish language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:32:31

placement, for example muzyka /ˈmuzɨka/ 'music' vs. muzyka /muˈzɨka/ – genitive singular of muzyk 'musician'. When additional syllables are added to such...

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Head covering for Christian women
Selasa, 2026-05-19 06:52:50

genitives may be classified under “possession, ownership, origin or source” (Porter, Idioms 93). The underlying idea of restriction that the genitive...

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Electryone
Rabu, 2025-09-24 02:02:36

name is akin to the Greek word for "rooster" (Alectrona, the feminine genitive of Αλεκτορ, Alektor, the ancient Greek word for 'rooster'), while the Attic...

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Ter Sámi
Rabu, 2026-04-15 12:13:09

Cyrillic Kildin Sámi orthography of 1982. Ter Sámi has 8 cases, Nominative, Genitive, Accusative, Essive, Inessive-Lative, Dative-Illative, Abessive, and Comitative...

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Atayal language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 10:22:48

below are sourced from Huang (1995). In both varieties, the nominative and genitive forms are bound while the neutral and locative ones are free (unbound)...

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Herman Melville
Kamis, 2026-05-28 22:44:06

Philippians 4:7. Third, certain Hebraisms are used, such as a succession of genitives ("all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob"), the...

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Object pronoun
Kamis, 2024-07-18 06:46:28

could be in either of these cases, or in the genitive or instrumental cases. With the exception of the genitive (the "apostrophe-s" form), in nouns this system...

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Proto-Semitic language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:09:13

extremely rare. Three cases are reconstructed: nominative (marked by *-u), genitive (marked by *-i), accusative (marked by *-a). There were two genders: masculine...

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Tallinn
Jumat, 2026-06-05 14:49:51

p. 11. ISBN 978-0-01-406269-0. Tallinna in Estonian denotes also the genitive case of the name, as in Tallinna Sadam ('the Port of Tallinn'). (in Danish)...

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Irrelevant conclusion
Jumat, 2025-06-27 05:08:44

elenchi is from Latin 'an ignoring of a refutation'. Here elenchi is the genitive singular of the Latin noun elenchus, which is from Ancient Greek ἔλεγχος...

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Western Moldavia
Rabu, 2026-05-13 15:10:03

(-ova is a quite common Slavic suffix), marking the end of one Slavic genitive form, denoting ownership, chiefly of feminine nouns (i.e., 'that of Molda')...

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Novial
Senin, 2026-05-25 09:14:29

The preposition em is equivalent to this ending.[dubious – discuss] The genitive personal pronouns – whether dependent or independent (corresponding to...

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Southwest Finnish dialects
Senin, 2026-03-02 11:16:57

Standard Finnish: palkka 'wage'. asùn Turùs I live in Turku The plural genitive in Southwestern dialects is "-tten", which is similar to Estonian. Recording...

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Patronymic surname
Senin, 2026-02-09 15:32:38

Gruffydds or Griffiths, i.e., the "ap" meaning "son of" was replaced by the genitive suffix "-s". Some Welsh surnames, such as John (a biblical name) or Howell...

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Pisidian language
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:19:39

little is known about the grammar. Two cases are assured: nominative and genitive; the presence of a dative is disputed: About the verb nothing can be said;...

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Pisces (constellation)
Senin, 2026-06-01 14:12:03

Constellation List of stars in Pisces Abbreviation Psc Genitive Piscium Pronunciation /ˈpaɪsiːz/; genitive /ˈpɪʃiəm/ Symbolism the Fishes Right ascension 1h...

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Devanagari conjuncts
Rabu, 2026-02-18 17:24:33

दङ्क्ष्ण्वोः (daṅkṣṇvoḥ) if inflected through Dual Masculine/Feminine Genitive & Locative cases. A close example is found in śloka 15, chapter 15 of Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā...

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Divine Service (Lutheran)
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 22:35:53

the genitive in "Gottesdienst" is arguably ambiguous. It can be read as an objective genitive (service rendered to God) or a subjective genitive (God's...

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Khalaj language
Minggu, 2026-05-31 18:13:43

receive a plural marker or possessive marker. Cases in Khalaj include genitive, accusative, dative, locative, ablative, instrumental, and equative. Forms...

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Atlantean language
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:16:05

no deviations from this pattern attested. Adjectives and nouns in the genitive case follow the nouns they modify, adpositions appear only in the form...

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Bishop of Rochester
Minggu, 2026-03-01 04:51:07

Latin episcopal signature is: "(firstname) Roffen", Roffensis being the genitive case of the Latin name of the see. The office was created in 604 at the...

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Mylonas
Rabu, 2024-10-30 22:16:59

Cypriot Greek family name with the etymological meaning "miller." The genitive case form Mylona (Μυλωνά) is also used for female name-bearers. Notable...

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Kairiru language
Senin, 2024-11-11 04:31:56

Kairiru is one of three Kairiru languages spoken mainly on Kairiru and Mushu islands and in several coastal villages on the mainland between Cape Karawop...

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Berber languages
Kamis, 2026-06-04 13:24:02

that the genitive in both languages is formed with n = "of" (though likely a common inheritance from Proto-Afro-Asiatic; cf. A.Eg genitive n). A number...

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Arya (Iran)
Minggu, 2026-04-19 21:59:51

where the Arya), the locative plural (airiio, place where the Aryas), the genitive plural (airiianąm, Aryas' or of the Aryas) or as an adjective (airiianəm...

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Determiner phrase
Kamis, 2026-05-07 20:58:58

the genitive expression is a dependent of the noun. The DP-analysis, in contrast, is challenged because in the b-variants, it takes the genitive expression...

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Slovak language
Minggu, 2026-04-05 04:41:48

nouns are inflected for case and number. There are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, and instrumental. The vocative is purely...

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Éire
Selasa, 2026-05-19 04:10:13

Irish in Éirinn, Scottish an Èirinn/ann an Èirinn "in Ireland"). The genitive case, Éireann (e.g. stair na hÉireann "the history of Ireland, Ireland's...

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Unaccusative verb
Senin, 2026-05-25 10:48:08

Guasti 2004, Snyder et al., 1995), and 3 - 6 year olds in Russian (using Genitive-of-Negation tests) (Babyonyshev et al. 2001). These studies all concluded...

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Androgeus (Aeneid)
Minggu, 2024-11-03 04:30:32

Ἀνδρόγεως, romanized: Androgeōs; derived from andros "of a man" and geos, genitive gē "earth, land") was a Greek soldier, who during the sack of Troy in the...

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Corvus (constellation)
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 04:53:13

Constellation List of stars in Corvus Abbreviation Crv Genitive Corvi Pronunciation /ˈkɔːrvəs/, genitive /ˈkɔːrvaɪ/ Symbolism the Crow/Raven Right ascension...

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Danish language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 19:58:50

grammatical genders. Only pronouns inflect for case, and the previous genitive case has become an enclitic. A distinctive feature of the Nordic languages...

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Niger–Congo languages
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 10:28:26

and genitives all coming after the noun. The major exceptions are found in the western areas where verb-final word order predominates and genitives precede...

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