genitive

Other forms of genitive

plural

genitives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about genitive

What does genitive mean?

genitive means "the case expressing ownership". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in genitive?

genitive has 3 syllables: ge-ni-tive. The stress falls on "ge".

What is another word for genitive?

Close synonyms include genitive case, possessive, possessive case, possessive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genitive a common word?

genitive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.