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 add either an article, as in A daughter cooked dinner, or a genitive, as in Jenny’s daughter cooked dinner, and the sentence is complete.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

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

In phrases such as “son of the father,” or “father of the son,” the genitives have the same effect.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

Possessive Pronouns are the genitives of the primitive; thus, no vónama, means, my hat, no being the genitive of nee, and the same with the rest.

From Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. by Buckingham 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

The genitives dës and wës may be used adverbially in the sense of therefore, wherefore; and likewise many nouns: tages, by day; dës sëlben tages, the same day; nahtes, by night.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright