genitivust
Genitivus refers to the grammatical case used in many languages to indicate possession, origin, or a relationship between entities. It is one of the traditional grammatical cases, alongside nominative, accusative, and others, and is most prominently featured in languages with rich inflectional systems, such as Latin, Russian, German, and Finnish.
In Latin, the genitive case is marked by suffixes like *-i* (for first- and second-declension nouns) or
In Slavic languages like Russian, the genitive case often indicates possession or absence (e.g., *книга* "book" becomes
Some languages, like English, have largely abandoned the genitive case in favor of prepositional phrases (e.g.,
The genitive case remains a key feature in languages with complex morphological systems, influencing syntax, semantics,