genitive
Meaning of genitive
adjective
relating to or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns (and words in grammatical agreement with them) indicating possession or close association.
noun
a word in the genitive case.
late Middle English: from Old French genitif, -ive or Latin genitivus (casus) ‘(case) of production or origin’, from gignere ‘beget’.
Information about genitive
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Hyphenation of genitive
gen-i-tive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- genitive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
genitive synonyms
Meaning possessive:
Meaning genitive case:
Translation of genitive
Words that rhyme with genitive
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