English construction used in the 16th–17th centuries
The his genitive is a means of forming a genitive construction by linking two nouns with a possessive pronoun such as "his" (e.g. "my friend his car" instead of "my friend's car"). This construction enjoyed only a brief heyday in English in the late 16th century and the 17th century, but is common in some varieties of a number of Germanic languages, and standard in Afrikaans.
The hisgenitive is a means of forming a genitive construction by linking two nouns with a possessive pronoun such as "his" (e.g. "my friend his car" instead...
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated gen) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus...
an apostrophe to an existing s. This form is sometimes called the Saxon genitive, reflecting the suffix's derivation from Old English. Personal pronouns...
In grammar, a genitive construction or genitival construction is a type of grammatical construction used to express a relation between two nouns such as...
of genitive. For example, the genitive construction "speed of the car" is equivalent to the possessive form "the car's speed". However, the genitive construction...
Ignatius His Conclave is a 1611 work by 16/17th century metaphysical poet John Donne. The title is an example of "hisgenitive" and means the conclave...
or genitive case and plural objects in nominative case since käteni may mean either "my hand" (subject or direct object), "of my hand" (genitive) or...
and second noun declensions, but there are differences; for example the genitive singular ends in -īus or -ius instead of -ī or -ae. The cardinal numbers...
Greek grammar, the genitive absolute is a grammatical construction consisting of a participle and often a noun both in the genitive case, which is very...
that also replaced the genitive case after prepositions. Nouns in Modern English no longer decline for case, except for the genitive. Pronouns such as whom...
Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (English: The Dative is the Death of the Genitive) is a series of books by Bastian Sick which deal in an entertaining manner...
aḍ-ḍamā’ir al-muttaṣilah) are used both as accusative and genitive forms of the pronouns. As genitive forms they appear in the following contexts: After the...
dependent genitive pronouns, such as my, are used as determinatives together with nouns, as in my old man, some of his friends. The independent genitive forms...
nominative, accusative (including functions formerly handled by the dative) and genitive cases. They are used with personal pronouns: subjective case (I, you, he...
to guess the genitive of a noun from the nominative: dux "leader" has genitive ducis but rēx "king" has rēgis; pater "father" has genitive patris but iter...
Instead, possession is expressed as in many German dialects with the hisgenitive, i.e. naming the possessor in the oblique case with the possessive adjective...
In Afro-Asiatic languages, the first noun in a genitive phrase of a possessed noun followed by a possessor noun often takes on a special morphological...
genitive the second, and so on. The nouns are usually listed and sorted by their nominative singular form, but declension is defined by the genitive singular...
auf dem Tisch (the thing on the table) There are also genitive direct objects. But the genitive object, other than accusative or dative objects, is somewhat...
that have two vowel stems, the weak vowel stem comes from the genitive singular. The genitive indicates possession. It is also used preceding postpositions...
found construction is "his noun1 noun2" meaning "noun2's noun1" ("his" often is a prefix in this construction), cf. hisgenitive in some Germanic languages...
and the owner's gender for the genitive. Dative: Ich gebe die Karten dem Mann – I give the cards to the man. Genitive: Die Entwicklung unseres Dorfes –...
words to moenie in the same way as do not shifts to don't in English. Hisgenitive de Stadler (1996:253) de Stadler, Leon G. (1996). "The indirect object...
was his own fault." — George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days (1879); quoted by Baskervill & Sewell. "Every person who turns this page has his own little...
also requires the genitive: ag caitheamh airgid "(the act of) spending money" The object of a compound preposition is in the genitive. Formally, these...