Types of Genitives



Types of Genitives

• Possessive – denotes the person or thing to which an object, quality, feeling, or action belongs

• Description/Quality – gives qualitative descriptions, but only when the quality is modified by an adjective

• Partitive/Genitive of the Whole – the genitive is used for the larger whole of which something is a part

• Objective – used with nouns that express verbal notions (often made from verbs and verbals), indicate who the object is in the genitive

Exercises: Underline the word or phrase that would be in the genitive case in Latin, tell what type of genitive it is, and then translate the genitive and what it describes into Latin. Put an X under type if the phrase does not use the genitive.

|Sentence |Type of Genitive |Latin Translation |

|Part of the city was burned in the fire. |Partitive |Pars civitatis |

|Julia’s brother is very tall. | | |

|Love of money can be dangerous. | | |

|I lost ten of the letters. | | |

|He is a man of great wisdom. | | |

|My life is disappointing. | | |

|His doctor is the best in town. | | |

|The woman’s death was unexpected. | | |

|The memory of you makes me sad. | | |

|I just finished reading Cicero’s book. | | |

|Much of the war was a disaster for us. | | |

|One of the consuls is a liar. | | |

|The enemies (inimici) of Caesar killed him. | | |

|His vices are despicable. | | |

|I give gifts of much money to the poor. | | |

|I’ve had enough of this! | | |

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