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genitive

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Is genitive a Scrabble word?

Yes, genitive is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 12 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of genitive?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the generation of offspring; generative, procreative, reproductive.Synonyms: progenitivearchaicnot-comparable

2. (grammar)Examples: "dependent genitive"; "independent genitive"; "The student who had taken a German exam realised his error afterwards. He had used the dative case instead of the genitive case to show possession."not-comparable

3. (grammar)not-comparable

noun (English)

1. (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of genitive case (“a grammatical case used to express a relationship of origin or possession”).Examples: "Nounes, Pronounes, and Participles are declin'd vvith ſix Endings, vvhich are called Caſes, both in the Singular and Plural Number. The Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accuſative, Vocative, and Ablative. […] The Genitive is Engliſht vvith this Sign of, as Libri of a Book."abbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisuncountable

2. (countable) A word inflected in the genitive case, and which thus indicates origin or possession.Examples: "This one vvord familia joyn'd vvith pater, mater, filius, or filia, endeth the Genitive in as, as pater familias, but ſomtimes familiæ."; "This older kind of genetive [i.e., the direct genetive] is apparently expressed only by the position of the two substantives, in which the governing word stands before the governed: pr:Z1-i-mn:n-A40 pr i̓mn "House of Amon.""countable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "genitive"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "genitive"?

Scrabble
12 points
G2
E1
N1
I1
T1
I1
V4
E1
Words With Friends
15 points
G3
E1
N2
I1
T1
I1
V4
E1

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