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genitive
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genitive (jĕn`ĭtĭv) [Lat.,=genetic], in Latin grammar, the case case, in language, one of the several possible forms of a given noun, pronoun, or adjective that indicates its grammatical function (see inflection); in inflected languages it is usually indicated by a series of suffixes attached to a stem, as in Latin amicus,
..... Click the link for more information.  typically used to refer to a possessor. The term is used in the grammar of other languages, but the phenomenon referred to may not closely resemble a Latin genitive; thus a Latin genitive will be translated by a number of different cases in Finnish. Such forms in English as his and father's are said to be genitive, or, more often, possessive.
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This pattern is illustrated by the genitive/ partitive pairs 'lippude ~ 'lippusid, sadude ~ sadusid and ridade ~ ridasid, which are based on the corresponding partitives 'lippu, sadu and ridu, not on the genitives lipu, saju and 'rea.
Declension classes in Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Blevins, James P. / Linguistica Uralica
common case in postmodifying of-phrases As genitives typically present given information, pronouns are a natural option: a friend of my mother's a friend of my mother a friend of hers *a friend of her Post-genitives with possessive pronouns are, in fact, far more common than those with genitive nouns (Johansson forthcoming), presumably because there is no alternative construction (6) and because the use of pronouns is perhaps the most economical means of presenting given information.
A friend of my mother('s): on the use of genitive vs. common case in ... by Oksefjell, Signe / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
I for one, being convinced in the great age of the Finnic *kalo-id-en and *kala-d-en types of plural genitives, see etymological equivalents of either in Samoyedic languages.
On the Finnic and Samoyedic genitive and accusative plural by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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