- genitive gender
- showing possession (Grammar)
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
genitive gender
Look at other dictionaries:
Genitive — Gen i*tive, a. [L. genitivus, fr. gignere, genitum, to beget: cf. F. g[ e]nitif. See {Gender}.] (Gram.) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Genitive case — In grammar, the genitive case or possessive case (also called the second case ) is the case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun but it can also indicate various relationships… … Wikipedia
Gender-neutral pronoun — Hir redirects here. For other uses, see Hir (disambiguation). A gender neutral pronoun is a pronoun that is not associated with any gender. It designates two distinct grammatical phenomena, the first being pronouns/periphrastics that have been… … Wikipedia
His genitive — The his genitive was a linguistic phenomenon in the syntax of the English language. The orthographic practice developed of marking the genitive case by inserting the word his between the possessor noun, especially where it ended in s , and the… … Wikipedia
Saxon genitive — In English language teaching, the term Saxon genitive is used to associate the possessive use of the apostrophe (the commonly termed apostrophe s ) with the historical origin in Anglo Saxon (also known as Old English) of the morpheme that it… … Wikipedia
Grammatical gender — This article is about noun classes. For uses of language associated with men and women, see Language and gender. For methods of minimizing the use of gendered forms, see Gender neutral language. For other uses, see Gender (disambiguation).… … Wikipedia
Colognian declension — Colognian grammar Articles Adjectives Prepositions Nouns Pronouns Declension Verbs Tense Aspect Mood Modal particle Conjugation Adverbial phrases Sentence structure The Colognian declension system describes how the Colognian language alters words … Wikipedia
Old English grammar — This article is part of a series on: Old English Dialects … Wikipedia
Romance languages — Romance Geographic distribution: Originally Southern Europe and parts of Africa; now also Latin America, Canada, parts of Lebanon and much of Western Africa Linguistic classification: Indo European Italic … Wikipedia
German grammar — This page outlines the grammar of the German language.GrammarGendersIn German all of the three genders of the Proto Indo European language have survived. The three genders are masculine ( männlich/Maskulinum ), feminine ( weiblich/Femininum ) and … Wikipedia
