English Dictionary

possessive case

名詞

(grammar) case used to express direct possession, ownership, origin, etc. Though similar in many ways to the genitive case, it is not always the same. Languages that have the possessive case include English and Quenya.

日本語の意味

所有格 - 所有や所属、起源などを直接表現する文法上の格。 / 名詞としての意味：ある対象が別の対象に属する状態（所有など）を示す格。

Linguists often debate whether the possessive case should be analyzed as a distinct syntactic category across languages.

言語学者は、所有格が言語間で独立した統語的カテゴリーとして分析されるべきかどうかをしばしば議論する。

意味（1）

(grammar) case used to express direct possession, ownership, origin, etc. Though similar in many ways to the genitive case, it is not always the same. Languages that have the possessive case include English and Quenya.

Substantives in the English tongue, have only two terminations for case: the nominative, which merely expresses the name of the thing, and the possessive, or genitive case, made by the addition of 's, with an apostrophe before it, which denotes property: all other realtions between substantives, as this also very often, are expressed by different prepositions: for example---a freeman's rights; or the rights of a freeman. When one thing is expressed as belonging to another, then one of the substantives is said to govern the other in the genitive, or possessive case; thus, Milton's poems; the king's gift; William's book. Here the former substantive, ending in 's, marked with an apostrophe, is the word governed; as Milton's: the latter is the word that governs; as, poems: the former is in the genitive case, which is marked thus, 's, which mark is called the possessive 's.

possessive cases （ plural ）