possessive case
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possessive case
noun possessive cases
- case used to express direct possession, ownership, origin, etc. Though similar in many ways to the genitive case, it is not always the same. Languages that have the possessive case include English and Quenya. Substantives in the English tongue, have only two terminations for case: the nominative, which merely expresses the name of the thing, and the possessive', or genitive case, made by the addition of s, with an apostrophe before it, which denotes property: all other realtions between substantives, as
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noun case used to express direct possession
| Español | caso posesivo |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 所有格 shoyūkaku |
| 中文 | 所有格 suǒyǒugé |
| Português | caso possessivo |
| Français | possessif |
| Deutsch | Genitiv |
| Ελληνικά | κτητική ktitikí |
| Русский | притяжа́тельный паде́ж pritjažátelʹnyj padéž |
| Tiếng Việt | sở hữu cách |
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title = {possessive case},
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