Possessive

The possessive case is a grammatical case. In the German language, he does not exist but is possessive pronouns ( mine, yours, his ... ), by the dative ( he cut his hair - who 's hair? ) Or by the genitive ( the Father's house - whose house ) reproduced. The German genitive is even today used mainly in the form of a Possessivs. The distinction between the dative one hand and the genitive or the use of a demonstrative pronoun on the other hand is done for blocks with indirect object complement after the point of view of Alienabilität.

In English, the possessive is the closest to the so-called " Saxon genitive ", ie the genitive ' s ( the Father's house - father's house - Whose House? ).

In some other languages ​​(eg Turkish ), it is used to show possessive relationship between a person and a thing; it gets the noun person-specific extensions. Replace the existing in other languages ​​possessives. Here is an example of the Turkish language based on the noun " araba " (car):