definitenessgenitive
The definiteness genitive is a grammatical construction found in some languages, notably in Slavic languages, where it marks a noun in the genitive case that also carries a definite meaning. This is often distinguished from the indefinite genitive, which refers to an unspecified quantity or item. In languages like Russian, the genitive case is used for both possession and for indicating a part of a whole, among other functions. The definiteness genitive typically arises in contexts where the noun in question is already specified by a demonstrative pronoun, a possessive pronoun, or is understood from the preceding discourse to be definite.
For instance, if a sentence refers to "one of the books," the word "books" might be in