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Genitive absolute

Noun
Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.Nounan independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as: in Ancient Greek, more frequent than the accusative absolute and the nominative absolute in Sanskrit later to the locative absolute in Avestan in Armenian in Tocharian, not so common in Middle Dutch, early modern Dutch and (vestigially) modern Dutch rarely in Middle High German
2.Nounin Ancient Greek, more frequent than the accusative absolute and the nominative absolute
3.Nounin Sanskrit later to the locative absolute
4.Nounin Avestan
5.Nounin Armenian
6.Nounin Tocharian, not so common
7.Nounin Middle Dutch, early modern Dutch and (vestigially) modern Dutch
8.Nounrarely in Middle High German

Synonyms

genitive-accusativegenitivegenetivegen.ergative caseergativegerundgenerative grammarcommon genderg-formgenerantcollective
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