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

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

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

Beetle sat down relieved, well knowing that a reef of uncharted genitives stretched ahead of him, on which in spite of M'Turk's sailing-directions he would infallibly have been wrecked.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling

In our own language once, twice, needs, are all genitives; seldom is a dative.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

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