genitive case

English

Noun

Examples
John's milk — John's is in the genitive (and in the possessive) case. glass of milk — milk is in the genitive (but not the possessive) case.

genitive case (plural genitive cases)

1. (grammar) Noun case used to express some relationship such as possession or origin. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition “of” and the suffix “-'s”.

Translations

genitive — see genitive

See also

• Appendix:Grammatical cases

Further reading

• genitive case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia