adjective / noun
possessive
A grammatical form showing ownership or association.
A possessive noun shows who owns something or how things relate.
Etymology
The Latin word family concerns possessing or holding. The grammatical label identifies forms that express possession or a related association.
More examples
- The possessive of “child” is “child’s.”
- In “today’s weather,” the possessive shows association rather than ownership.
- Regular plural possessives, such as “dogs’,” end with an apostrophe.
Forms
possessive · possessives
Similar words
- genitive
- Names a grammatical case expressing possession and other relationships.