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Meaning of "genitival" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GENITIVAL

genitival  [ˌdʒɛnɪˈtaɪvəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GENITIVAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Genitival is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES GENITIVAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Genitive case

In grammar, genitive (abbreviated gen; also called the possessive case or second case) is the grammatical case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun; however, it can also indicate various other relationships than possession: certain verbs may take arguments in the genitive case, and it may have adverbial uses (see Adverbial genitive). Placing the modifying noun in the genitive case is one way to indicate that two nouns are related in a genitive construction. Modern English typically does not morphologically mark nouns for a genitive case in order to indicate a genitive construction; instead, it uses either the 's clitic or a preposition (usually of). However, the personal pronouns do have distinct possessive forms. There are various other ways to indicate a genitive construction, as well. For example, many Afroasiatic languages place the head noun (rather than the modifying noun) in the construct state.

Definition of genitival in the English dictionary

The definition of genitival in the dictionary is of, relating to, or in the genitive case.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GENITIVAL


ablatival
ˌæbləˈtaɪvəl
adjectival
ˌædʒɪkˈtaɪvəl
aestival
iːˈstaɪvəl
agentival
ˈeɪdʒənˌtaɪvəl
archrival
ˌɑːtʃˈraɪvəl
arrival
əˈraɪvəl
conjunctival
ˌkɒndʒʌŋkˈtaɪvəl
estival
iːˈstaɪvəl
gerundival
ˌdʒɛrənˈdaɪvəl
imperatival
ɪmˌperəˈtaɪvəl
infinitival
ˌɪnfɪnɪˈtaɪvəl
nival
ˈnaɪvəl
nominatival
ˌnɒmɪnəˈtaɪvəl
objectival
ˌɒbdʒekˈtaɪvəl
ogival
əʊˈdʒaɪvəl
relatival
ˌreləˈtaɪvəl
revival
rɪˈvaɪvəl
rival
ˈraɪvəl
substantival
ˌsʌbstənˈtaɪvəl
survival
səˈvaɪvəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GENITIVAL

genistein
genit.
genital
genital herpes
genital warts
genitalia
genitalial
genitalic
genitally
genitals
genitivally
genitive
genitively
genitor
genitourinary
genitourinary medicine
geniture
genius
genius loci
genizah

WORDS THAT END LIKE GENITIVAL

accusatival
archival
carnival
datival
diminutival
Edinburgh Festival
festival
film festival
fringe festival
gingival
Gothic Revival
Greek Revival
harvest festival
music festival
nonarrival
Parzival
Percival
perspectival
receival
Spring Festival

Synonyms and antonyms of genitival in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «genitival» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GENITIVAL

Find out the translation of genitival to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of genitival from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «genitival» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

genitival
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

genitivo
570 millions of speakers

English

genitival
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

genitival
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

genitival
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

genitival
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

genitivo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

genitival
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

génitival
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Genitival
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

genitival
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

genitival
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

genitival
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Genitival
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

genitival
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

genitival
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनैच्छिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

genitif
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

genitivale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

genitival
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

genitival
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

genitival
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

genitival
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

genitival
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

genitival
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

genitival
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of genitival

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GENITIVAL»

The term «genitival» is used very little and occupies the 183.726 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GENITIVAL» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GENITIVAL»

Discover the use of genitival in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to genitival and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Linguistic Geography of Africa
4.4.6 The genitival modifier It has been mentioned in section 4.4.5 that the genitival construction may involvea special “construct form” of thehead noun. The genitival construction may also involve a genitive marker attached to the genitival  ...
Bernd Heine, Derek Nurse, 2008
2
A Basic Grammar of the Ugaritic Language: With Selected ...
The superlative function can be expressed by an adjectival attribute followed by a genitival attribute: hry \ ncmt.sph.bkrk 1.14:111:39-40 = 88.71 "Hurray, the most beautiful of the offspring of your first-born." 75.4. Genitival attribute A genitival ...
Stanislav Segert, 1984
3
Early Middle English Syntax
heora elc12 Usually the genitival syntagm precedes the nucleus which it expands. For genitival syntagms which partly precede and partly follow their nucleus Ekwall coined the term 'split genitive' lEk~ wall 19l3l. Exgpples: hes oynges wyrre of ...
Lilo Moessner, 1989
4
Studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages: Proceedings of the ...
The degree of its nominal ization can be observed mainly in its ability to receive case markers and its ability to construct a genitival noun phrase with its subject. The type of this genitival noun phrase is also important. In Turkish there are two ...
Aslı Göksel, Celia Kerslake, 2000
5
Possessors, Predicates, and Movement in the Determiner Phrase
4.2 English / Scandinavian 's-genitives In English and the Standard Mainland Scandinavian languages we find a genitival -s that is not a morphological case ending on the noun. Instead the genitival -s is found at the end of the noun phrase, ...
Artemis Alexiadou, Chris Wilder, 1998
6
Grammaticalization at Work: Studies of Long-term ...
By the end of the EModE period local expressions formed with thereof had gradually given way to genitival constructions. The share of the genitival use of thereof increased subperiod by subperiod. At the same time the number of tokens of ...
Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, Kirsi Heikkonen, 1997
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Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture ...
Like the direct genitive, this construction could be used to link nouns of any gender or number, defined and undefined. The linking word, which is called the “ genitival adjective,” originally had the same gender and number as the first noun (A), ...
James P. Allen, 2010
8
African Traditional Plant Knowledge Today: An Ethnobotanical ...
Genitive phrases The genitives are phrases that consist of two nouns with a genitival link e.g. Chinuka cha m 'masai. The genitival links are characterized by verbal concord or agreement with the class membership of the head noun, and the ...
Mohamed Pakia, 2005
9
Investigations in the Bulgarian and Macedonian Nominal ...
PI leather. Pl. Adj sneakers 'those two pairs of new leather sneakers of mine/ Vesna's' Topolinjska (1997:1 19) attributes this word order to the special semantic feature of the Possessive Pronoun and Genitival Adjective to function as some kind ...
Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova, 2009
10
A Study of the Analogical Extension of the Mongolian ...
quite likely, but in that case there is no basis for assigning hidden-n an origin as a possessive or genitival marker as Finch does. However, to return to Finch's discussion of the Mongolian and Turkic nominal declensions, after considering the ...
Mikael Adrian Thompson, 2008

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