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Genitive Case (Genitiv)

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What is the Genitive Case?

The genitive case is used to show possession, origin, and relationships between nouns.

It answers the questions Whose? and Of what? in any sentence.

In Bosnian: Čiji? (Whose?) or Od čega? (Of what?)

Examples:

The student's book
English: apostrophe + "s" shows possession
Knjiga studenta
Bosnian: "studenta" is in genitive case

💡 Think of the genitive as the "ownership case" - it shows who owns what or what something is made of!