• Greek grammar, the genitive absolute is a grammatical construction consisting of a participle and often a noun both in the genitive case, which is very...
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    In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated gen) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus...
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  • verb. Its analogues are the ablative absolute in Latin, the genitive absolute in Greek, or the locative absolute in Sanskrit. A noun in the common case...
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  • genitive absolute in Greek, dative absolute in Old English, Gothic and Old Church Slavonic, locative absolute in Sanskrit and instrumental absolute in...
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  • g.: φιλέει (philéei) > φιλεῖ (phileî) "he" or "she loves"; (c) in the genitive plural of all 1st declension nouns and all 3rd declension nouns of the...
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  • is in a construction known as the "genitive absolute", when the participle and its subject are placed in the genitive case. This construction is used when...
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  • form changes to one of the five cases (nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, or dative). The set of forms that a noun will take for each case and number...
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  • distinguished: (1) Genitive absolute: the participle modifies a noun or pronoun (as if its "subject") that stands in the genitive case; in this construction...
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  • Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory...
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  • -ος -os, have a genitive plural ending in -ῶν -ôn. This also applies to 1st declension adjectives, but only if the feminine genitive plural is different...
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  • absolute construction in Latin is called an "ablative absolute" and is comparable to the Greek genitive absolute or the English nominative absolute....
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  • Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory...
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    Faculté de Philosophie de l'Université de Leipzig [= On the Use of the Genitive Absolute in Sanskrit: Doctoral thesis presented to the Philosophy Department...
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  • adverbially with participles of impersonal verbs, similarly to the genitive absolute. For example: συνδόξαν sundóxan seeming good-ACC τῷ tôi the-MASC.DAT...
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  • accusative case; used with the article, it may be in any case (nominative, genitive, dative and accusative). (b) It shows morphological formation according...
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  • *πάντ-σι → πᾶσι (masculine/neuter dative plural) compare παντ-ός (m./n. genitive singular) *όντ-ι̯ᾰ → *όντσα → οὖσα participle "being" (feminine nominative...
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    his De l'emploi du génitif absolu en sanscrit (On the Use of the Genitive Absolute in Sanskrit) published in 1881, he specifically mentions Pāṇini as...
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  • Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory...
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  • Possessive (category Genitive construction)
    of genitive. For example, the genitive construction "speed of the car" is equivalent to the possessive form "the car's speed". However, the genitive construction...
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  • original speech, has been changed to a present participle using the genitive absolute construction. The aorist tense main verb has been changed into the...
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  • which replaced the old future forms. Ancient formations like the genitive absolute, the accusative and infinitive and nearly all common participle constructions...
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  • Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory...
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  • Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory...
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  • the object of a preposition, for an absolute disjunct, and sometimes for the complement of a copula. The genitive case (possessive pronouns such as my/mine...
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  • was dropped in Ancient Greek, as in ποίημα (from ποίηματ; compare the genitive singular ποιήματος). Other consonants may end a word, however, when a final...
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  • In grammar, the absolutive case (abbreviated ABS) is the case of nouns in ergative–absolutive languages that would generally be the subjects of intransitive...
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  • In Afro-Asiatic languages, the first noun in a genitive phrase that consists of a possessed noun followed by a possessor noun often takes on a special...
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  • and second noun declensions, but there are differences; for example the genitive singular ends in -īus or -ius instead of -ī or -ae and the dative singular...
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    to guess the genitive of a noun from the nominative: dux "leader" has genitive ducis but rēx "king" has rēgis; pater "father" has genitive patris but iter...
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  • kill them.) Genitive and possessive modifiers of verbal nouns exhibit behaviour analogous with that of an ergative–absolutive language. Genitive modifiers...
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