noun🔗Share(grammar) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession."The genitive case in Spanish shows possession, as in "la casa de mi padre" (the house of my father). "grammarlanguagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(grammar) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.""In the sentence 'The student's book', the word 'student's' is a genitive, showing that the book belongs to the student." "grammarlinguisticslanguagewordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗Share(grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses a quality, origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English."The teacher explained the genitive case by showing how to form the possessive forms of nouns, like "John's book" or "the cat's toy." "grammarlanguagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
