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Dative is the death of genitive.
Dative spells the death of the genitive.
In Latin, there are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative.
The genitive singular of "rosa" is "rosae".
In German, the definite article's genitive plural in all three genders is "der".
In German, the feminine definite article's genitive singular is "der".
Russian has six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, and prepositional.
One of the functions of the genitive case in Russian is to denote possession.
In Arcaicam Esperantom, the ending -es can be applied to any noun to form the genitive.
In English there are only three cases, nominative, genitive, and objective, or accusative case.
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The student who had taken a German exam realised his error afterwards. He had used the dative case instead of the genitive case to show possession.
[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.
Nouns Subſtantive have five Declenſions or forms of ending thir Caſes, chiefly diſtinguiſht by the different ending of thir Genitive Singular. […] The firſt [declension] is vvhen the Genitive and Dative ſingular end in æ, &c., […]
Two kinds of genitive: All nouns have a genitive form, but pronouns have two of them. The dependent genitive form is used before a head noun, and the independent genitive form (usually distinct) is used on its own but with a genitive-related meaning. […] my painting, where my is the dependent genitive of I, but That painting is mine, where mine is the independent genitive […]
Establishments that feature their owners' names, with signs like "Rosi's Bar" or "Kati's Kiosk" are a common sight around German towns and cities, but strictly speaking they are wrong: unlike English, German does not traditionally use apostrophes to indicate the genitive case or possession.
Nounes, Pronounes, and Participles are declin'd vvith ſix Endings, vvhich are called Caſes, both in the Singular and Plural Number. The Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accuſative, Vocative, and Ablative. […] The Genitive is Engliſht vvith this Sign of, as Libri of a Book.
This one vvord familia joyn'd vvith pater, mater, filius, or filia, endeth the Genitive in as, as pater familias, but ſomtimes familiæ.
This older kind of genetive [i.e., the direct genetive] is apparently expressed only by the position of the two substantives, in which the governing word stands before the governed: pr:Z1-i-mn:n-A40 pr i̓mn "House of Amon."
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