Word: genitive
Category: genitive
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Related words: genitive
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Synonyms: genitive
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: genitive
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spanish
Translations:
genitivo
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german
Translations:
genitiv
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french
Translations:
génitif
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russian
Translations:
родовой, родительный
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danish
Translations:
genitiv
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czech
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genitiv
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polish
Translations:
dopełniacz
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greek
Translations:
γενική
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ukrainian
Translations:
родовий
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estonian
Translations:
omastav, genitiiv
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croatian
Translations:
genitiv
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lithuanian
Translations:
kilmininkas
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latvian
Translations:
ģenitīvs
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macedonian
Translations:
генитив
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romanian
Translations:
genitiv
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slovenian
Translations:
genitiv
The meaning and "use of": genitive
adjective
- relating to or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns (and words in grammatical agreement with them) indicating possession or close association. - Since every regular noun has a genitive form, every trademark that has the form of a singular noun has a genitive form too.
- a word in the genitive case. - In phrases, adjectives and genitives generally precede nouns: micel fld ‘a great flood;’ Westseaxna cyning ‘king of the West Saxons.’
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