genitive

How To Use genitive In A Sentence

• If they fail to reproduce their kind, they have failed in their purpose; they are unconsciously ruled by the philoprogenitive passion; it is their raison d'etre, for it they are fed, clothed, trained, bred. Captivity
• attributive: -s/-l directive: -is locative: -eBy renaming the genitive case as "attributive", we make it clearer that these endings are not just restricted to mere "possessives" or "ablatives" but rather we recognize their many other usages. Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 2
• I could see his face, could see its changing passions, progenitive agony, frustration and delight. THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
• We will also come back, by the same route, to the deep ontological ramifications of the so-called equative genitive (or genitive metaphor) in that line's second phrase: the breath of fresh air that is autumn, rather than the breath that issues from it, as one might say in common figure "the very breath of life. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
• Surnames were frequently created out of the Latin genitive of some ancestor's given name.
• It should be a ditransitive verb, meaning that it takes two objects, one in the accusative and one in the genitive. Archive 2008-03-01
• The word "philoprogenitive" and the French phrase stopped her. Captivity
• That was the genitive singular ending on what are called masculine strong nouns. The English Is Coming!
• 'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for'). A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement
• Unlike the Liber Linteus, where we find for example both postfixed accusative article -cn and -tn, we are supposed to believe that the Tabula Capuana shows a different grammatical pattern that has an odd bias towards the l-genitive of ta rather than ca. Deictics on the Tabula Capuana