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Genitive Articles
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The Genitive is used to express possession:
In English, this possessive is translated as "of." Genitive Endings Of Definite Article Words The least used case in spoken German is the genitive. The definite article forms are as follows:
The definite article words, dieser, welcher, etc., take the same genitive endings as the definite article, i.e. dieses, dieser, dieses, dieser, etc. Genitive Endings of kein and Indefinite Article Words The genitive forms for kein are listed as follows:
The indefinite article and the possessive adjectives, mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer, Ihr, take the same endings as kein. |
Examples of Genitive Articles
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