Genitive Case (definition)

For information on forming the Genitive Case in Gaelic see Genitive Formation; for information on where the genitive case is used in Gaelic see Genitive Constructions.

Genitive case is typically used to indicate that the noun is a possessor. In Gaelic it is also used as the case on objects that follow Verbal Nouns.

See Also

• Case (definition)
• Accusative Case (definition)
• Nominative Case (definition)
• Common Case (definition)
• Dative Case (definition)
• Genitive Formation
• Genitive Constructions

External Links

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive_case

References

• SIL entry on genitive case
• Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.