genitival

The table below shows how the genitival articles depend on gender and number.

Note that because the object of a verbnoun is genitival, all periphrastic constructions take y.

The genitival article also has genitive/dative forms, which are used only with a possessive pronoun.

Moreover, both particles are not prefixed to non-final nouns in a genitival construction.

Had it been given a kasra, it would have been confused with the genitival particle.

Furthermore, the grammatical school of Kufa allows al- on the first noun in a genitival construction if it is a number.

This 'genitival adjective' grammatically agrees with the preceding noun.

In Romanian this becomes o hartă a Chinei, where "a" is the genitival article.

Genitival constructions are syntactically very unusual when compared to non-Celtic western European languages.

The genitival construction (iḍāfa)

Al- has also been seen in poetic verses prefixed to non-final nouns in a genitival construction.

The two functions: apposition, and genitival adjective, were normal- ly distinguished by stress and intonation.

English uses the preposition of to express many genitival constructions, e.g. "the father of John" or "the capital of the nation".

Exceptions to this include genitival constructions where the first noun is a participle and the second noun is its object.

Possessable nouns are characterized by a prefixation whereby the noun agrees with the possessor or genitival modifier.

Pl), the genitival noun phrase agrees in case (nominative) and number (plural) with the head noun.

The genitival forms of the reflexive pronouns are the same for the 1st and 2nd persons, but also differ in the 3rd person singular, which is al său.

Typically, no other element can intervene between construct-state noun and modifying genitival noun, and the two often function as a phonological unit.

If a noun is followed by a genitival attribute (noun in the genitive or suffixed pronoun) it becomes a construct (denoting possession).

In all other cases, known as 'indirect' relative clauses - those where the relativised element is genitival or the object of a preposition, y, the complementizer, is used.

But genitival sequences with the possessor or qualifier second in the later period also became fixed compounds: as Doriath, for Dor lath 'Land of the Fence'.

The present periphrastic with bod tends to use a construction with the verbnoun bod in a genitival construction with the subject of the subordinate clause:

In Russian, for example, most nouns have a corresponding adjective that is declined as a normal adjective (agreeing with its head noun) but has the meaning of a genitival modifier.

In usual genitival phrases such as numele trandafirului (the name of the rose), the genitive is only recognized by the specific ending (-lui in this example) and no other words are necessary.

But Ella remained in use in quasi-adjectival function (e.g. as the first element in loose or genitival compounds): thus the equivalent of Q Eldalie was in T Ellalie.