Genitive construction

grammatical case that marks a word as modifying another word, indicating possession, composition, etc.

A possessive or ktetic form (abbreviated or ''''''; from ; ) is a word or grammatical construction indicating a relationship of possession in a broad sense. This can include strict ownership, or a number of other types of relation to a greater or lesser degree analogous to it.

possessive form in English

grammatical construction

determiner which modifies a noun by attributing possession

grammatical construction

thumb|Roadsign in Morocco, showing an iḍāfah construction: "Commune of Oulmes". Iḍāfah () is the Arabic grammatical construct case, mostly used to indicate possession.

asymmetric relationship between two constituents in the context of linguistics

in linguistics, a type of possession in which a noun is obligatorily possessed by a possessor; e.g. “hand” or “mother” implies someone’s hand or mother; in English, “father of Mary” is acceptable (because inalienable), but “squirrel of Mary” is not