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- noun Plural form of
genitive .
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Examples
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If the to constitute a V why this clafs lomination *. enominated cer - ing to their own called genitives,
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Small Talk wonders how your genitives and gerunds are treating you.
John Amaechi: 'Most people's principles are tested at some time' | Small Talk 2011
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Wildly defective genitives *mlitós → Hit milittas, Lat mellis, Gk μέλιτος, Ir melo, Arm melu.
Missing honey 2010
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Wildly defective genitives *mlitós → Hit milittas, Lat mellis, Gk μέλιτος, Ir melo, Arm melu.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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PfM, Turkish uses genitives and possessives together, eg of-him sisters-thereof, to avoid such ambiguities.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish because if you concede that it is a genitive and it ends in -s like so many other attested genitives, there's no sense to the added complexity you force upon it.
Ashes to ashes 2009
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By the way, Phoenix, Etruscan has two genitives depending on whether the noun is type-I or type-II gender.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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Some animates use l-genitives; some inanimates use s-genitives.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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An unmarked genitive would be an exception to the thoroughly attested rule that genitives receive either -s or -l based on noun type.
Ashes to ashes 2009
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An unmarked genitive would be an exception to the thoroughly attested rule that genitives receive either -s or -l based on noun type.
Ashes to ashes 2009
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