genetive case

Genitive Case

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
  1. adding 's after the noun (John's brother)
  2. adding of before the noun (the end of the movie)

Spelling of 's

Spelling of the genitive case depends on whether the noun is plural, singular or ending in 's':
TypeGenitive CaseExplanation
singular nounthe girl's roomgirl is singular: add 's
plural nounsthe girls' roomgirls is plural: add '
singular noun ending sJonas' car or Jonas's carAfter nouns ending in s (like Jonas) either add ' or 's
irregular pluralchildren's toysfor irregular plurals like (children) add 's
In case there are many nouns, add an 's only to the last noun.
Example:
  • Leila and Nancy's friend

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