Editing Genitive case (section)

==Functions==
Depending on the language, specific varieties of genitive-noun–main-noun relationships may include:
* [[possession (linguistics)|possession]] (''see'' [[possessive]] case, [[possessed case]]):
** [[inalienable possession]] ("''Janet's'' height", "''Janet's'' existence", "''Janet's'' long fingers")
** [[alienable possession]] ("''Janet's'' jacket", "''Janet's'' drink")
** relationship indicated by the noun being modified ("''Janet's'' husband")
* composition (''see'' [[Partitive]]):
** substance ("a wheel ''of cheese''")
** elements ("a group ''of men''")
** source ("a portion ''of the food''")
* participation in an action:
** as an [[agent (grammar)|agent]] ("She benefited from ''her father's'' love")&nbsp;– this is called the ''subjective genitive'' (Compare "Her father loved her", where ''Her father'' is the ''subject''.)
** as a [[Patient (grammar)|patient]] ("the love ''of music''") &nbsp;– this is called the ''objective genitive'' (Compare "She loves music", where ''music'' is the ''object''.)
* origin ("men ''of Rome''")
* reference ("the capital ''of the Republic''" '''or''' "''the Republic's'' capital")
* description ("man ''of honour''", "day ''of reckoning''")
* compounds ("''dooms''day" ("doom's day"), [[Scottish Gaelic]] "''ball coise''" = "football", where "''coise''" = gen. of "''cas''", "foot")
* [[Apposition#Appositive genitive|apposition]] (the city of Rome)
Depending on the language, some of the relationships mentioned above have their own distinct cases different from the genitive.

[[Possessive pronoun]]s are distinct pronouns, found in Indo-European languages such as English, that function like pronouns inflected in the genitive. They are considered separate pronouns if contrasting to languages where pronouns are regularly inflected in the genitive. For example, English ''my'' is either a separate [[possessive adjective]] or an irregular genitive of ''I'', while in Finnish, for example, ''minun'' is regularly [[agglutination|agglutinated]] from ''minu-'' "I" and ''-n'' (genitive).

In some languages, nouns in the genitive case also [[agreement (linguistics)|agree]] in case with the nouns they modify (that is, it is marked for two cases). This phenomenon is called [[suffixaufnahme]].

In some languages, nouns in the genitive case may be found in [[inclusio (linguistics)|inclusio]] – that is, between the main noun's [[article (grammar)|article]] and the noun itself.