Old English had a genitive case, which has left its mark in modern English in the form of the p… 展开

Finnic languages (Finnish, Estonian, etc.) have genitive cases. In Finnish, prototypically the genitive is marked with -n, e.g. maa – maan "country – of the country". The stem may c… 展开

The ablative case of Indo-European was absorbed into the genitive in Classical Greek. This added to the usages of the "genitive proper", the usages of the "ablatival genitiv… 展开

The Hungarian genitive is constructed using the suffix -é. 1. madár ('bird'); madáré('bird's') The genitive -ésuffix is only used with the predicate of a sentence: it serves the role o… 展开

Japanese construes the genitive by using the grammatical particle noの. It can be used to show a number of relationships to the head noun. For example: 1. 猫の手 neko-no te("cat'… 展开