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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'genitive case' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions genitive case noun  (grammar): noun case used to express some relationship such as possession or origin. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition "of." Though similar to the possessive case, it is not the same (the possessive case shows possession, while the genitive is much broader: John"s milk is possessive as well as genitive; glass of milk is only genitive, since the milk does not possess the glass). Some languages that make use of the genitive case include Croatian, Dyirbal, Finnish, German, Greek, Latin, Polish, Quechua, Russian, and Sanskrit. Translations:  Dutch: tweede naamval , genitief French: génitif German: Genitiv Italian: caso genitivo Spanish: caso genitivo        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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