| 单词 | genitive |
| 例句 | At this point you may be wondering: What’s with “genitive”? Isn’t that just what we were taught is the possessive? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But Toni Morrison’s is not an adjective, like red or beautiful; it’s a noun phrase in genitive case. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The clumsy examples above show that long and complicated subjects are best left unmarked, whereas simpler ones like pronouns work well in the genitive, as in I appreciate your coming over to help. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But add either an article, as in A daughter cooked dinner, or a genitive, as in Jenny’s daughter cooked dinner, and the sentence is complete. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But that has nothing to do with the antecedent being in the genitive case; it’s just as much of a problem in Sophie and her mother think she’s fat. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The genitive you are mine / is a phrase I cherished only when I'd moved on / and couldn't use it. Pluto by Glyn Maxwell – review 2013-04-20T11:01:01Z During the Force Majeure show, Izzard gets to grips with German sentence structure and declensions, earning knowing applause from the Berlin crowd for his perfect use of the fiendishly tricky genitive case at one stage. Grappling German grammar, Eddie Izzard proves humor can travel 2014-01-29T15:27:11Z Similarly, names unable to accommodate the endings required by the nominative, accusative, genitive and dative cases used in Icelandic are also routinely turned down. Icelandic girls can't be called Harriet, government tells family 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Who cares, so far as the matter of it is concerned, whether we say hominum or hominorum in the genitive plural, interesting as the fact may be for the philologist? Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z It's absolutely useless to go on to the third declension until you remember the genitive plural of dominus. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z In Buddhist Sanskrit the words kŗtas, done, and kŗtyas, to be done, were added to a noun to form a kind of genitive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z They are often designated by the letters R, S, T, and so on, followed by the genitive form of the name of the constellation wherein they are found. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z In the Semitic languages the genitive must follow the noun that governs it. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Furthermore the name with which his text No. I. began appears in the third line of text No. II., but in a somewhat longer form, which Grotefend thought was a genitive and meant “of N.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z C. L. N. A. B. I. In line 1 note ra put after the genitive, following its noun. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z As already stated, the genitive is an adjective. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Stars of this class are known to astronomers as Nov�, usually with the genitive of the constellation name, as Nova Andromed�. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z Strong adjectives agree with the nouns they qualify in gender, number and case, as in the examples of the genitive above. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The primitive Indo-European noun possessed at least eight cases—nominative, accusative, vocative, instrumental, dative, genitive, ablative and locative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Construct′iveness, the faculty of constructing; Construct′ure.—Construct state, in Hebrew and other Semitic languages, the state of a noun depending on another noun, which in Aryan languages would be in the genitive case—e.g. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z The next step of importance was taken by Rask in 1826, who discovered the termination of the genitive plural and the true reading of the title 'Achaemenian.' A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The form of the signature may be a nominative with a verb, a nominative without a verb or a genitive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z But the Attic writers often use it as a neuter word; and the genitive case, as they use it, is τοῦ ταρίχους. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z We cannot speak of declensions, since English has no genders except in the pronouns of the third person, and no cases except the genitive and a few faint traces of an old dative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z A gerund A double diminutive A genitive It's letting the temperature drop to less than 45C. Quiz of the week's news 2011-06-17T01:19:28Z Further an example out of Persius, where the ablative stands in the place of the genitive, besides a number of instances out of the books of Moses, and the Psalms. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z It serves to form the genitive or possessive case. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z The third immigration is represented by languages with preposition of the genitive, no initial r and l, and purely vowel terminations. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z In our own language once, twice, needs, are all genitives; seldom is a dative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Several old genitives and plural forms continued to exist, and the dative or prepositional case has usually a final e. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The term "abortus," being in the genitive case, may be employed with either generic term. Contagious Abortion of Cows 2011-02-14T03:00:33.157Z Very many of the Greek "genitives absolute," we remember, were to be rendered by quum, with a subjunctive pluperfect—an enormous mystery to us at the time. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z The adjective is placed after the noun it qualifies, whilst the genitive, on the contrary, precedes the governing noun. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z Our own language still remains true, however, to the syntax of the parent Indo-European when it sets both adjective and genitive before the nouns which they define. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Some say that it is the genitive case of Meadh, the name of some ancient chieftain who was buried in the hill. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z These names are for the most part a Greek letter prefixed to the genitive case of the Latin name of the constellation. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z The usual genitive postposition is k, which has become a suffix, and now forms part of the word to which it is attached, a final preceding vowel being frequently shortened. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z It is often redundant, and is prefixed to the word Elohim where it cannot be a sign of the genitive, because not immediately preceded by a noun to govern it. The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets 2010-12-20T17:11:50.233Z In many passages, however, ary�s may equally well be the genitive of ar�, which is explained as “active, devoted, pious.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Making the tribes a genitive case, by inserting of before them, is wholly uncalled for by the text. An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on The Messiah's Coming "But," it might be replied, "your alleged 'residual genitive' could be assumed everywhere, and we should thus find all the prohibitions of composition in constructions with a genitive case rendered utterly nugatory." The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy In Mth. the nominative plural is also the oblique form of the genitive singular, and in Bh. and Mg. it is the oblique form of the genitive plural. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The genitive plural again is formed by adding a tz or c, and the same consonant characterizes the composite aorist and the conjunctive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" How did these words, genitive case, come to India? Lectures on The Science of Language The genitive, which precedes the governing noun, is often identical with the oblique base, or else it is formed by adding suffixes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" From the time of Boniface V. to Leo IV., a.d. 617-855, the name of the pontiff, in the genitive case, was impressed on the obverse, and his title as pope on the reverse, e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" The Icelandic ordab�k, like the German, contains the genitive plural. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" In Cornwall the inscriptions are mostly very curt, just “A, son of B,” all in the genitive case, meaning “the monument of A, who was son of B.” The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894 Nor does the genitive express the relation of son to father. Lectures on The Science of Language The genitive is given only when not perfectly regular. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Recurring to the meaning of the word galt, a gentleman in Ireland, a professor of Irish, states that geilt is a mad person, one living in the woods, and that gealt is the genitive plural. Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles When a boy has learned that in the genitive plural of the first declension of Greek nouns the final syllable is circumflexed, but to this there are the following exceptions: 1. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 The Font is so called from the Latin word Fons, genitive Fontis, meaning a fountain or spring, referring to Baptism as a Laver of Regeneration, the source of new and spiritual life. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia This is the real power of the genitive. Lectures on The Science of Language The Weak Declension of adjectives, whether monosyllabic or polysyllabic, does not differ from the Weak Declension of nouns, except that -ena of the genitive plural is usually replaced by -ra of the strong adjectives. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary It is, as has been previously shown, uninflected in the genitive or possessive case. Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century The measure of quantity is put after adjectives, in the accusative, the ablative, and the genitive case, as Anguis centum pedes longus: A snake a hundred feet long. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue The translators of the S. S. have sometimes formed the genitive of feminine polysyllables in this manner, as sionagoige from sionagog, Mark v. Elements of Gaelic Grammar We know that the more remote object may be put in the dative, and that the predicate, in its most general form, may be rendered by the genitive. Lectures on The Science of Language It is not a predicate adjective, but a partitive genitive after hwæt. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Case.—Of these the Saxons had, for their substantives, at least three; viz., the nominative, dative, genitive. A Handbook of the English Language The is in Samnīs long by right is Because its genitive’s Samnītis, Where you observe a lengthened state Of syllable penultimate. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue But it appears more agreeable to the analogy of inflection that such polysyllables should now be written without an e in the genitive. Elements of Gaelic Grammar We are taught that whereas in English the genitive is marked by a final s, or by the preposition of, it is in Greek expressed by a final ος, in Latin by is. Lectures on The Science of Language Brūcan, to enjoy, usually takes the genitive case, not the accusative. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary The existence of a genitive plural in -r or -ra; heora, theirs; aller, of all. A Handbook of the English Language Except, likewise, those genitive and dative cases of the fifth declension where the vowel e, like Punch’s nose, is made long between two i’s, as faciēi, of a face. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue In this case writers have been puzzled how to form the genitive. Elements of Gaelic Grammar But what this ος and is represent, why they should have the power of changing a nominative into a genitive, a subject into a predicate, remains a riddle. Lectures on The Science of Language Note 2.—Many numerals, otherwise indeclinable, are used in the genitive plural with the indefinite pronoun sum, which then means one of a certain number. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary The nominative plural and the genitive singular are, in the present language of England, identical; the apostrophe in father's being a mere matter of orthography. A Handbook of the English Language The genitive case is known by the sign of, and answers to the question, whose, or whereof; as, Whose breeches? The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue The infinitive of a transitive verb, preceded by any preposition, always governs the noun, which is the object of the verbal action, in the genitive. Elements of Gaelic Grammar In Sanskrit every substantive has its locative, as well as its genitive, dative, and accusative. Lectures on The Science of Language The preposition wið, meaning toward, may be followed by the genitive, dative, or accusative; but meaning against, and implying motion or hostility, the accusative is more common. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary In other words, why do we call him and them accusatives rather than datives or genitives? A Handbook of the English Language As a pig is known by his tail, so are declensions of substantives distinguished by the ending of the genitive case. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue The same nouns are generally feminine in the genitive; as, gu cr�ch na cruinne to the extremity of the world. Elements of Gaelic Grammar But more than this, it can be proved that the locative has actually taken, in some cases, the place of the genitive. Lectures on The Science of Language Why is there such an analogy, in many languages, between the genitive and the plural? Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. The true nature of the genitive form in 's.—It is a common notion that the genitive form father's is contracted from father his. A Handbook of the English Language They are thus ticketed—nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, and ablative. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue Dream f. people, race, gean m. humour, have their genitive like the nominative. Elements of Gaelic Grammar In Latin, for instance, the old genitive of nouns in a was as. Lectures on The Science of Language Our ancestors knew nothing of our mode of making genitives by turned commas. Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Hence was formed from it the anomalous genitive its superseding the Saxon his. A Handbook of the English Language Whence the original noun substantive by change of its termination suggests a secondary idea either corresponding with the genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, or ablative cases, besides the secondary ideas of number and gender above mentioned. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes The following dissyllables seem to have formed their genitive like monosyllables, and then suffered a contraction. Elements of Gaelic Grammar The Umbrian and Oscan dialects retained the s throughout as the sign of the genitive after nouns in a. Lectures on The Science of Language I must not neglect to add that there was another mode of forming the genitive, namely, by the possessive pronoun, as the king his palace. Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The genitive is put last, because its occurrence in the Gothic languages is the least constant. A Handbook of the English Language This genitive case is said to be expressed in the Hebrew language simply by the locality of the words in succession to each other; which must so far add to the conciseness of that language. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Sometimes the characteristic vowel is retained, and sometimes it is thrown away, the final e of the genitive being converted into a, when requisite to suit an antecedent broad vowel. Elements of Gaelic Grammar The æ of the genitive was originally ai, that is to say, the old locative in i. Lectures on The Science of Language The en might either be the Cornish preposition yn, or it may have been intended for the article in the genitive, an. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities It may be the sign of the genitive case, so that Thursday = Thoris dies. A Handbook of the English Language If the object is not a pronoun, it follows the infinitive without change of initial, after the manner of an appositional genitive. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature A few monosyllables ending in a vowel have their genitive like the nominative; as, ni m. a thing, ti m. a person, r� m. the moon; to which add righ m. a king. Elements of Gaelic Grammar A boy is taught at school, that if he wants to say “I am staying at Rome,” he must use the genitive to express the locative. Lectures on The Science of Language The genitive denotes possession and is formed by adding an apostrophe, and the letter s to the nominative; it answers to the question whose? A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c. Reasons for this view occur in the following fact:— In the modern German languages the genitive case of feminine nouns ends otherwise than in -s. A Handbook of the English Language It signifies, “fair the world,” i.e. happy, and is used with possessive pronouns and appositional genitives. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature The employment of the genitive with punya is to be avoided. A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay Hindústání, real origin of, 70. the genitive and adjective in, 113 note. Lectures on The Science of Language This use of the genitive with pistis, to denote its object, is frequent. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians Now, if we take up the common grammars of the English language as it is, we find, that, whilst my and thy are dealt with as genitive cases, mine and thine are considered adjectives. A Handbook of the English Language But this is not the Cornish form, which uses the simple appositional genitive in such cases. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature It seems quite easy to him, but I never know which verb goes with which substantive, or whether a thing is a nominative or a genitive. The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life No single individual could deliberately have set to work in order to abolish the old Latin genitive, and to replace it by the periphrastic compound de illo. Lectures on The Science of Language Here again the Welsh element is strong, and four of these names, ending in -s, belong also to the next group, i.e. the class of surnames formed from the genitive of baptismal names. The Romance of Names In the Anglo-Saxon grammars, however, min and �in, the older forms of mine and thine, are treated as genitives or possessives. A Handbook of the English Language It would seem that the initial of the genitive word should in this case be in the second state. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature I shall have occasion to notice the peculiar use of the genitive case and of genitival adjectives in worship later on. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus It was necessary that the inconvenience of having no distinct or distinguishable sign of the genitive should have been felt by the people who spoke a vulgar Latin dialect. Lectures on The Science of Language Masculine names of persons take -es in the genitive, -e in the dative, and -en in the accusative after the analogy of the strong adjectives. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition They may be genitives or possessives, which were originally datives or accusatives; in which case they are deduced from the Anglo-Saxon mec and �ec. b. A Handbook of the English Language This construction, which answers more or less to the ablative absolute of Latin, and the genitive absolute of Greek, is common to all the Celtic languages. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature The possessive case, for instance, can be expressed either by means of a proposition, in French fashion: "The works of Shakespeare," or by means of the ancient genitive: "Shakespeare's works." A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance And how are the dark scholars in the government schools of India to guess the meaning of genitive? Lectures on The Science of Language Feminine names of persons ending in a consonant take -e in the genitive, dative and accusative, but occasionally remain uninflected throughout. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition Etymological evidence.—Assuming two powers for the words min and �in, one genitive, and one adjectival, which is the original one? A Handbook of the English Language All cases except the genitive and accusative are formed by prepositions, as in English. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature The construction of the sentence is rather complex: Ovid's normal practice would be to employ an objective genitive with causa. The Last Poems of Ovid In phrases such as “son of the father,” or “father of the son,” the genitives have the same effect. Lectures on The Science of Language Cardinal numerals, used substantively, are also followed by the genitive: zweinzec starker man, twenty strong men. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition The genitive m�ns is evidently the derivative of m�n. A Handbook of the English Language Words denoting number, quantity, etc., generally adjectives or numerals, may be followed by this form of genitive. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature I have heard it asked what then is the genitive of hiemps; to which the best reply perhaps would be what is the perfect of sumo or the supine of emo. The Last Poems of Ovid In Hindustání the genitive is so clearly an adjective, that it actually takes the marks of gender according to the words to which it refers. Lectures on The Science of Language This is properly a substantive and thus governs the genitive as do the other substantives. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language Substantives in the genitive case; as needs. b. A Handbook of the English Language If there is a succession of genitives, only the last noun can have an article. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Thanks to the drivelling idiotcy of Warminster, who doesn’t even know the feminine genitive of corpus, he scraped through; and, as he couldn’t do much worse than Coxhead, he did a shade better.’” Tom, Dick and Harry The genitive udakasya is therefore the same as an adjective without gender. Lectures on The Science of Language There are two particles for the genitive; i.e., no and ga. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language By rights is a word of the same sort; the -s being the sign of the genitive singular like the -s in father's, and not of the accusative plural like the -s in fathers. A Handbook of the English Language The genitive of material is rather the use of a noun as an adjective. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature The genitive of ordinary nouns is in reality an adjective, and the difference between nouns and adjectives is of no great importance ... The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Another method which is used for indicating the genitive and ablative relations is the termination il. The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 These nouns are in the genitive if they are followed by a substantive noun, but when they are not followed by a noun they must be taken as adjectives. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language As far, therefore, as the spelling is concerned, they are in the same predicament with the word once, which is properly on-es, the genitive of one. A Handbook of the English Language The genitive of possession is the appositional genitive. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature His, her, etc., in such constructions have their full force as genitives: comp. Milton's Comus Cincinnati is an odd name for a town, whether we regard it as a genitive singular, or as a nominative plural. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Sometimes the particle to is suffixed to the genitive; e.g., Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language It has been stated that its is a secondary genitive, and it may be added, that it is of late origin in the language. A Handbook of the English Language It is one of the common genitives of the Gaelic dialects, and as such is important, for it is not recognised in Welsh or Breton. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Do you know the difference between the genitive and the ablative case? New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words The nominative, in both languages, is often abridged; so that, from the genitive of the word, or from the possessive, the original term is to be deduced. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. When two nouns are joined to form a single word, the one which is like an adjective does not require the genitive particle; e.g., cocuxu 'the Lord of the kingdom.' Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language The Anglo-Saxon form was his, the genitive of he for the neuter and masculine equally. A Handbook of the English Language Sometimes the personal pronoun as a genitive following the noun, with or without the preposition a, of, was used instead of a possessive pronoun, but in this case it was probably not enclitic. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Case.—The cases are the nominative, nominative-agent, genitive, accusative, instrumental dative and ablative. The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales In Grammar the only non-Melanesian characteristic which appears is the preceding of the substantive by the genitive, but in the vocabularies a few correspondences are found. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea This way of forming the genitive is very common in Japanese; e.g., Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language Which, however it is, is uncertain; since her may be either a so-called genitive, like my, or an accusative like him. A Handbook of the English Language As in the other Celtic languages, when a noun is followed by another noun in the possessive appositional genitive, the first noun has no definite article. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Case.—The language has the nominative, nominative-agent, genitive, accusative, instrumental, dative and ablative cases. The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales The genitive is expressed by means of the possessive adjective. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea A numeral, if a substantive noun is placed after it, must be in the genitive case; e.g., fitot�u no toga 'one sin.' Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language In the absolute construction of a genitive case, the term is formed by the single word, only so far as the expression is concerned. A Handbook of the English Language The same rule applies to a similar appositional genitive in Hebrew—a curious coincidence between two quite unconnected languages. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Case.—The principal cases are the nominative, causative, instrumental, genitive, accusative, dative and ablative. The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales Because there are genitive cases, different kinds of verbs, six tenses, etc. in the Latin or Greek, the same distinctions should exist in our grammars. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. The corner of a stone hurt me; stone is the genitive case. Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles When substantives, they are in regimen, and govern a genitive case—What is the meaning of the lady's holding up her train? A Handbook of the English Language Similarly, when the object is a noun, it really follows the infinitive as an appositional genitive. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature The wallaby, burrai, takes the genitive affix, as being the possessor or recipient of the killing. The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales The genitive of the French, Latin, or Greek, will apply in only a few respects. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. By this term, which is most often followed by the genitive plural bó, "cows," they meant "a driving," or "a reaving," or even "a drove" or "herd" of cattle. The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge No preposition, in the present English, governs a genitive case. A Handbook of the English Language Compound prepositions, when, as is generally the case, they are made up of a simple preposition and a noun, govern the first state, for the noun which follows is really in the appositional genitive. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature When we meet with a phrase such as 'the father of the father' we understand at once that the genitive denotes a father different from the father denoted by the nominative. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 His rule of syntax is, "one substantive governs another, signifying a different thing, in the possessive or genitive case; as, my father's house." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Then he settled down to the first Latin declension—Musa, a muse; vocative, Musa, O muse!; genitive, Musae, of a muse. The Ship of Stars The true expression is, that the preposition of followed by an objective case is equivalent in many instances, to the genitive case of the classical languages. A Handbook of the English Language Sometimes, however, the initial of an appositional genitive, and sometimes that of an epithet of a masculine noun is irregularly changed in composition. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature With passages of this kind the Sûtra only agrees if the genitive case is taken to denote the object. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 The nominative may be construed with the previous line, but the genitive would be better. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 I am almost afraid to suggest that we should read "pillars'" in the genitive plural, "proof" being taken in the sense of established strength. Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 Dr. Lowth, on the other part, supposes the possessive pronouns mine and thine to be genitive cases. A Grammar of the English Tongue This may often, more or less, determine whether the epithet is an adjective or a noun in the genitive. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature The words 'of this' denote that substrate of qualities which is presented to us by perception and the other means of right knowledge; the genitive case indicates it to be connected with origin, &c. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 Verse 22 contains 4 substantives in the genitive plural. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Erinn is the genitive, but too long in use to admit of alteration. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 This termination of the noun seems to constitute a real genitive indicating possession. A Grammar of the English Tongue Curious to relate, I had entirely forgotten the genitive of ego…. The War of the Wenuses For one and the same thing cannot, by means of a genitive, be predicated of—and thus distinguished from—itself. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 The Greek of Plato was translated by a long succession of writers, "Zoroaster the son of Oromazes," until some one happened to think that this genitive might imply a different relation. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology In all negative phrases they employ likewise the genitive instead of the accusative. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations The formation of the plural and genitive singular is the same. A Grammar of the English Tongue Substantives of the First Declension form their genitive in que, and usually are such as terminate in a vowel. Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. Note.—Two substantives, when they come together, and do not signify the same thing, the former must be in the genitive case. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The contracted form of this was Sap., the ordinary import of which is the termination of the Latin genitive plural rum. Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 As for the Dual, a form which the Slavic languages do not all possess, the nominative and accusative, the genitive and local; the dative and instrumental cases, are always alike. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations Plurals ending in s have no genitives; but we say, Womens excellencies, and Weigh the mens wits against the ladies hairs. A Grammar of the English Tongue Substantives of the Second Declension form their genitive in te and t. Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. The genitive of this would be "newes," thus spelt and probably pronounced the same as in England. Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 Beetle sat down relieved, well knowing that a reef of uncharted genitives stretched ahead of him, on which in spite of M'Turk's sailing-directions he would infallibly have been wrecked. A Diversity of Creatures But this very fact made the genitive and dative o-forms of the plural seem out of place. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Whose is rather the poetical than regular genitive of which. A Grammar of the English Tongue Some ending in t while they form the genitive in te, part with a vowel, as follows: N. Arit, Ant. Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. With regard to this idiomatic use of the genitive case, vide "Grammar," page 96, paragraph b. Bagh O Bahar, or Tales of the Four Darweshes Buchanan, and the author of the old British Grammar, assigned to them one case only, the possessive, or genitive. The Grammar of English Grammars The nominative and accusative fet was naturally far more frequently in use than were the corresponding forms of the genitive and dative. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Of two substantives the noun possessive is in the genitive; as, His father's glory; The sun's heat. A Grammar of the English Tongue Substantives of the Third Declension end in s, r, z, and form the genitive by the addition of e, and the accusative by i. Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. The word uira means fat, and cocha, lake, sea, or other large body of water; therefore, as the genitive must be prefixed in the Qquichua tongue, the translation must be "Lake or Sea of Fat." American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Dr. Adam also says, "In English, nouns have only one case, namely, the genitive, or possessive case."—Latin and Eng. The Grammar of English Grammars In the order of words, the genitive follows the norm it governs, and, as usual in such cases, the relations of time and place are indicated by prefixes, not by suffixes. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 There exists therefore the highest classical authority for the use of "Nati" in the sense of "Sons" or "offspring" governing a genitive case. Bacon is Shake-Speare Possessive Pronouns are the genitives of the primitive; thus, no vónama, means, my hat, no being the genitive of nee, and the same with the rest. Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. Certainly, every species must have its genitive Soul, - and every cell in every individual has its own. The Bride of Dreams "WHOSE, the possessive or genitive case of who or which; applied to persons or things." The Grammar of English Grammars In imitation of Livy Bracciolini, throughout both parts of the Annals, puts the adjective in the neuter, and makes the substantive depend upon it in the genitive. Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century On this title page we find "Baconis" used as the genitive of Bacon's name in Latin. Bacon is Shake-Speare The genitive case denotes dependence; the dative, transmission. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The possessive or Saxon genitive was confined to persons, or at least to animated subjects. Literary Remains, Volume 1 Ash says, "Nouns of the plural number that end in s, will not very properly admit of the genitive case." The Grammar of English Grammars But perhaps it consoles her to think that she knows the genitive of mensa. Look Back on Happiness It is used, as here, with the genitive of the human recipient, in Balaam's prophecy, on which this is evidently modelled. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII In all, or almost all, words ending in "ward," the genitive inflection, according to modern English practice, can either be retained or dropped at will. America To-day, Observations and Reflections Readers of Homer do not want to be reminded that hippodamoio, horse-subduer, is the genitive of an epithet applied as a chief honor to the most illustrious heroes. Our Hundred Days in Europe "When the apostrophic s is used, the genitive is the former of the two substantives; as, 'John's house:' but when the particle of is used, it is the latter; as, 'The house of John.'" The Grammar of English Grammars The clause 'That is the Self of me, within the heart' designates the embodied soul by means of a genitive form, while the object of meditation is exhibited in the nominative case. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 As for the text "I am Brahman," you must take the nominative case as only used there for the genitive by the licence of an inspired speaker. The Tattva-Muktavali The locative case denotes the relation usually expressed in English by the use of a preposition, or by the genitive, dative and ablative in Latin. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author Ocean’ foam as if a genitive was meant; but cf. Proserpine and Midas Besides, my does not express the quality of the books, but only ascertains the possessor, the same as the genitive or substantive does, to which it is similar. The Grammar of English Grammars With the exception of the locative, the instrumental, the genitive, and also ana, ita, usi, all the foregoing prepositions are used with a suffixed pronoun; ita is used with the possessive. Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands I doubt that a negative can thus be suffixed to a genitive. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Composition with the genitive is very frequent in Icelandic. Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary My children's timeless deaths can scarce be said for untimely; nor should I choose to employ children's as a plural genitive case, which I think the s at the end cannot imply. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 On account of this one-sided equivalence, many grammarians erroneously reckon the latter to be a "genitive case" as well as the former. The Grammar of English Grammars Amor matris, subjective and objective genitive, may be the only true thing in life. Ulysses Where in the original the Greek word "cave" is in the genitive case, not as it should be, dative. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies There are four cases--nominative, accusative, dative, genitive. Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary It has various cases formed by postpositions, but has, strictly speaking, no genitive.� Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language The notion that of forms a genitive case, led Priestley to suggest, that our language admits a "double genitive;" as, "This book of my friend's." The Grammar of English Grammars It seemed absurd to waste time analyzing, every word I came across—noun, genitive, singular, feminine—when its meaning was quite plain. The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy Likewise the genitive has a certain affinity with the dative. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies The former were never very numerous; though the sounds of “nominative, pennaa—genitive, penny,” were soon heard to issue from the windows of the room, to the great delight and manifest edification of the passenger. The Pioneers A particle affixed in English Gypsy to the name of a place terminating in a vowel, in order to form a genitive; e.g. Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language Little explanatory circumstances," says Priestley, "are particularly awkward between the genitive case, and the word which usually follows it; as, 'She began to extol the farmer's, as she called him, excellent understanding.' The Grammar of English Grammars The genitive case with them is also obsolete; the dative supplies its place: they say the House 'to' a Man, instead of the House 'of' a Man. The Coming Race Two genitives dependent on one another, unless familiarised by idiom, have an awkward effect in English. 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