The clause 'That is the Self of me, within the heart' designates the embodied soul by means of a genitive form, while the object of meditation is exhibited in the nominative case.
In the order of words, the genitive follows the norm it governs, and, as usual in such cases, the relations of time and place are indicated by prefixes, not by suffixes.
The genitive in Saxon would be mannes, a trochee; in English, of man, an iambus.
Because there are genitive cases, different kinds of verbs, six tenses, etc.
The genitive of the French, Latin, or Greek, will apply in only a few respects.
The nominative there is Moinen, the genitive is Moinend or Moinenn.
Eriu is the older nominative, and its vowel termination would render it better adapted to form a compound than the genitive form Erin, and thus we get Eriugena, which no doubt would very soon be contracted into Erigena.
It was itself the covenant, for the genitive [Greek: tes diathekes] in Mark xiv.
The genitive almost invariably ends in -es[62], sometimes shortened to -s.
Substantives of French origin take a genitive in -es or -s, and remain unchanged in the dat.
Monthe (B 1674) is an old genitive plural, after the numeral twelf.
And, since the genitive case, in Chaucer, usually has a form of its own, let us consider the nom.
In Naevius we find archaisms proportionally much more numerous than in Plautus, especially in the retention of the original length of vowels, and early forms of inflexion, such as the genitive in -as and the ablative in -d.
Genitive singular of the o-stems (second declension) in -i Lat.
The free use of the genitive and dative of the gerundive to denote purpose is common in Tacitus, the former being almost limited to him.
To this primitive neighbourhood may be referred such peculiarities as (a) the genitive plural feminine ending in -asom (Gr.
The dative of purpose and the dative with a substantive in place of a genitive are more common with Tacitus than with any writer.
Nor does the genitive express the relation of son to father.
It was necessary that the inconvenience of having no distinct or distinguishable sign of the genitive should have been felt by the people who spoke a vulgar Latin dialect.
The ae of the genitive was originally ai, that is to say, the old locative in i.
You see thus by one instance how what grammarians call a genitive was formed by the same process of composition which we can watch in Chinese, and which we can prove to have taken place in the original language of the Aryans.
A boy is taught at school, that if he wants to say "I am staying at Rome," he must use the genitive to express the locative.
In Latin, for instance, the oldgenitive of nouns in a was as.
What may now be called grammar in English is little more than the terminations of the genitive singular, and nominative plural of nouns, the degrees of comparison, and a few of the persons and tenses of the verb.
The Umbrian and Oscan dialects retained the s throughout as the sign of the genitive after nouns in a.
Thus genos does not form the genitive genesos, like the Latin genus, genesis or generis, but geneos = genous.
How did these words, genitive case, come to India?
Deis is the genitive of Deas (south, right hand), and Tuath is north or left hand.
Domnu, the genitiveof which is Domnann, was the name of an ancient goddess.
It includes every man of real mark, and the most thoughtful of the popes, Sylvester II.
McCaul further observes, that the word Jehovah must sometimes be taken as the genitive case, and cites Mal.
Now, this apposition of two nouns, which still serves the purpose of the genitive in many languages, might be regarded as attributive or as predicative.
Thus the conditions were laid for the tripartite division—the genitive case, the adjective, and the verb.
During the time which we are now contemplating, there could have been no distinction at all between the genitive case and the adjective; neither could there have been any verbs as independent parts of speech.
When the force of the genitive had to be conveyed, it was conveyed by this same device of apposition.
With a genitive it is often pleonastic and untranslatable.
Trim] is the genitive of Drom or Drum, a long low hill, a back.
And so we now have also the genitive Erin, as a poetical name of the island.
One of the native names of Ireland is Eri, or Eire, genitive Erinn.
It is not a predicate adjective, but a partitive genitive after #hwæt#.
Many numerals, otherwise indeclinable, are used in the genitive plural with the indefinite pronoun #sum#, which then means one of a certain number.
The adverbial genitive is abundantly preserved in Mn.
The Weak Declension of adjectives, whether monosyllabic or polysyllabic, does not differ from the Weak Declension of nouns, except that -ena of the genitiveplural is usually replaced by -ra of the strong adjectives.
The genitive (the possessive case of Modern English) is the case of the possessor or source.
Footnote 2: The positions of the genitive are various.
It is evident that in reality it was merely a new setting to the old conception of the representative self-sacrifice of God--in which the genitive is to be taken both in its subjective and objective sense.
The genitive in this sentence is in one case to be understood in an objective, in the other in a subjective sense.
Leverett says: "The genitive is elegantly put before the noun which governs it with one or more words between; except when the genitive is governed by a neuter adjective, in which case, it must be placed after it.
The southern doctrine, that Congress is to the District a mere local Legislature to do its pleasure, is tumbled from the genitive into the vocative!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "genitive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: case; generative; genetic; genial; genital; nominative; prepositional
