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Genitive case

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  1. 1
    The grammatical case, chiefly applicable to nouns, used to express a relationship of origin or possession. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition of and the suffix -'s.

    "In very early times a man seems to have been known by a single name together with his father's name in the genitive case, e.g. Marcus Marci; […]"

  2. 2
    the case expressing ownership wordnet

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