dativegjenitive
Dativegjenitive, also called the Dativgenitiv phenomenon, is a grammatical construction found in Germanic languages, most notably in everyday German. It expresses possession by combining a dative noun phrase with a possessive determiner, rather than forming a noun phrase with a genitive attribute. The canonical genitive equivalent would be das Auto des Mannes, while the dative-genitive form is dem Mann sein Auto.
In practice, a typical instance appears as a dative noun phrase followed by a possessive pronoun and
Usage and status vary by register. The dative-genitive form is common in spoken and informal German and
Linguists study the phenomenon as a case of possessor marking and case assignment, noting its parallels to