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

The clumsy examples above show that long and complicated subjects are best left unmarked, whereas simpler ones like pronouns work well in the genitive, as in I appreciate your coming over to help.

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

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

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

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

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

In other words, why do we call him and them accusatives rather than datives or genitives?

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham