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

But Toni Morrison’s is not an adjective, like red or beautiful; it’s a noun phrase in genitive case.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

Shakspeare, for example, uses Lucrece and cockatrice as genitives.

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

The genitives of the Third Personal Pronoun, his, his, hiere, her, hiera, their, are indeclinable.

From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith

Plurals ending in s have no genitives; but we say, Womens excellencies, and Weigh the mens wits against the ladies hairs.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson

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

It signifies, “fair the world,” i.e. happy, and is used with possessive pronouns and appositional genitives.

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner