genitive

The species name populi is a Latin singular noun in the genitive case meaning "of the people."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2026

During the Force Majeure show, Izzard gets to grips with German sentence structure and declensions, earning knowing applause from the Berlin crowd for his perfect use of the fiendishly tricky genitive case at one stage.

From Reuters ● Jan. 29, 2014

The genitive you are mine / is a phrase I cherished only when I'd moved on / and couldn't use it.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2013

Definiteness can be marked by other th-words such as this, that, these, and those, or with a genitive noun, as in Claire’s knee or Jerry’s kids.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

But that has nothing to do with the antecedent being in the genitive case; it’s just as much of a problem in Sophie and her mother think she’s fat.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Personal pronouns 84; 242; —— —— as subject, omission of, 166, 2; —— —— as objective genitives, 242, 2. —— endings, 96. persuādeō, with dat.,

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

The genitives hande, slahte, leie = manner are used adverbially: maneger hande, slahte, or leie, in many ways, manifoldly.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright

Very many of the Greek "genitives absolute," we remember, were to be rendered by quum, with a subjunctive pluperfect—an enormous mystery to us at the time.

From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding

Our ancestors knew nothing of our mode of making genitives by turned commas.

From Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

Latin genitives, 117. similarity between Gothic and Latin, 127. genealogical relation of Latin to Greek, 172. the future in Latin, 230.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller