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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Derived terms 2 Romanian 2.1 Noun

[ English

[ Etymology

From Latin genitus, the substantive form of genitalis meaning "pertaining to generation or birth", from the Greek genete, (birth).

[ Adjective

genitive (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.

[ Translations

of or pertaining to the case of possession

Arabic: إضَافيّ (iɖáːfi), جَرِّي (járri) Bulgarian: родителен (rodítelen) Catalan: genitiu m., genitiva f. Czech: genitivní cs(cs) Dutch: genitief nl(nl) m. Finnish: genetiivi- (in compounds) French: génitif fr(fr) m., génitive fr(fr) f. German: genitivisch de(de) Hebrew: יחס הקנײן (yakhas ha-knayn) m. Hungarian: birtokos hu(hu)

Icelandic: eignarfalls- (in compounds) Japanese: 属格 (ぞっかく, zokkakú), 生格 (せいかく, seikakú; for Slavic) Latin: genetivus, genetiva, genetivum m/f/n Portuguese: genitivo pt(pt) m., genitiva pt(pt) f. Russian: родительный, родительная, родительное, родительные (rodítel’nyj, rodítel’naja, rodítel’noje, rodítel’nyje) m/f/n/pl Slovene: rodilniški m., rodilniška f., rodilniško n. Spanish: genitivo es(es) m., genitiva es(es) f. Swedish: genitiv sv(sv)

[ Noun

Singular genitive

Plural countable and uncountable; genitives

genitive (countable and uncountable; plural genitives)

1. (grammar) (uncountable) The genitive case; the inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.
2. (grammar) (countable) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.

[ Translations

the genitive case

Arabic: حَالةُ المُضَافِ إلَيْه (ħáːltu l-muɖáːfi iléyh), مَجْرُور (madžrúːr) Bosnian: genitiv bs(bs) m. Bulgarian: родителен падеж (rodítelen padéž) m. Catalan: genitiu m. Croatian: genitiv hr(hr) m. Czech: genitiv cs(cs) m., druhý pád cs(cs) m. Danish: ejefald Dutch: genitief nl(nl) m., tweede naamval nl(nl) m. Finnish: genetiivi, omanto (obsolete) French: génitif fr(fr) m. German: Genitiv de(de) m. Greek: γενική el(el) (yenikí) f.

Hebrew: יחס הקנײן (yakhas ha-knayn) m. Hungarian: birtokos eset hu(hu) Icelandic: eignarfall is(is) n. Latin: casus genetivus m., patrius casus m. Latvian: ģenitīvs m. Lithuanian: kilmininkas lt(lt) m. Portuguese: genitivo pt(pt) m. Romanian: genitiv ro(ro) n., caz genitiv ro(ro) n. Russian: родительный падеж (rodítel’nyj padéž) m. Slovak: druhý pád sk(sk) m., genitív sk(sk) m. Slovene: rodilnik sl(sl) m. Spanish: genitivo es(es) m. Swedish: genitiv c. or n.

a word in the genitive inflection

Swedish: genitiv c. or n.

[ Derived terms

• Genitive absolute, a construction in Greek similar to thee ablative absolute in Latin.

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[ Romanian

[ Noun

genitive n. pl.

1. Plural form of genitiv.