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Significados de possessive en inglés

portugués
genitiva

Serving to express or indicate possession.

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genitiva
portugués
caso genitivo
catalán
genitiu

The case expressing ownership.

caso genitivo
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Examples for "genitive case"
Examples for "genitive case"
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He further notes some curious uses of the genitive case, e.g.
Laws
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It has all to do with the genitive case as perfected by our Gaelic ancestors.
The Irish Times
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The genitive case denotes dependence; the dative, transmission.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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For plebeians like us the usage would have been to use the father's name in the genitive case.
The Irish Times
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Perhaps Mr Flynn is under the impression that the genitive case possesses no function other than that of confusing would-be students.
The Irish Times
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The following are the rules for the forming of the possessive case:
Practical Grammar and Composition
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Irish is not alone among languages in possessing a possessive case.
The Irish Times
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Suppose, therefore, we stop at the possessive case, and call him simply Fessenden's?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 / A Magazi...
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The possessive case on end's, suggests perhaps a skid on the part of the signwriter?
The Irish Times
5
It also denotes the possessive case; as, John's hat.
McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
ruso
притяжательный падеж
español
posesivo
catalán
possessiu

Word or grammatical construction used to indicate a relationship of possession in a broad sense.

posesivo

Possessive.

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Uso de possessive en inglés
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I'm over it, I said, suddenly possessive of my newfound free time.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
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I have work yet, and she is oddly possessive of my attention.
Fragile Eternity
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The following are the rules for the forming of the possessive case:
Practical Grammar and Composition
4
Change the following expressions from the prepositional phrase form to the possessive:
Practical Grammar and Composition
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She told herself she had imagined the possessive tone of his words.
Heart of gold
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She belonged to him, and he was possessive of his new friend.
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
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You know how possessive he is about that cesspool company of yours.
A Confederacy of Dunces
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With Courant the change showed in a possessive tenderness, a brooding concern.
The Emigrant Trail
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The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.
The Complex Vision
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Primal anger sharpened in his gut, brimming with a territorial, possessive need.
Heir of Fire
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He was very possessive and did not get on with her family.
The Irish Times
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Also, without sounding too possessive, she is also one of our own.
The South African
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Some men feel possessive when they have strong feelings for a woman.
The Mammoth Hunters
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He looked around the church with what was almost a possessive eye.
The Breaking Point
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Wherever love exercises its creative energy the possessive instinct relaxes its hold.
The Complex Vision
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He stroked a possessive hand down the lush length of her back.
Deadly little secrets
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español
posesivo
Possessive a través del tiempo
Possessive por variante geográfica
Estados Unidos de América
Común
Reino Unido
Común