Genitive case
Genitive case is 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.
Examples:
- Janet’s long fingers, Janet’s jacket, Janet’s drink (relationship indicating possession)
- a wheel of cheese (a relationship indicating composition)
- the love of music (participation in an action)
- men of Rome (origin)
- the capital of the Republic (reference)
- man of honor(description)
Form of genitive case
Genitive case can be indicated by
- adding 's after the noun (John's brother)
- adding of before the noun (the end of the movie)
