POSSESSIVE CASE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The case expressing ownership

Synonyms:

genitive; genitive case; possessive; possessive case

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("possessive case" is a kind of...):

oblique; oblique case (any grammatical case other than the nominative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "possessive case"):

attributive genitive; attributive genitive case (a word in the genitive case that is used as an attributive adjective)

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