Genitive

To form a genitive (similar to English "of") use suffixes appended to both adjective and to noun. Suffixes are different for gender and number.

SingularPlural
Masculine-ego -a-yh -ov
Feminine (-a)-ej -y-yh a
Neuter (-o)-ego -a-yh o

See resultion table for genitive adjective masculine and genitive adjective feminine

Example for words: muž (M), žena (F), drevo (N), syn (M), grupa (F), koleno (N):

NominativeGenderGenitive
+y
muž
syn
M+ego
muža
syna
+a
žena
grupa
F+ej
vody
grupy
+e
drevo
koleno
N+ego
dreva
kolena

Kviet mojego dobrego muža (Flower of my good husband) S/M
Uho tvojej novej ženy (Ear of thour new wife) S/F
Buducnost malego dreva (Future of small tree) S/N
Priklad zlatyh synov (Example of golden sons) P/M
Jezyk našyh staryh predkov (Language of our old ancestors) P/M
Sila vašyh zelenyh grup (-) (Force of your green groups) P/F
Konec velikyh kraľevstv (-) (End of great kingdoms) P/N

Prepositions

Several prepositions require Genitive, for example: bez (without) dla (for recipient of) do (to) iz (out of) od (from) okrem (except) u (at/nearby) zamesto (instead of)

Examples

Ide do novej pracy bez mojego muža. (I go to new work without my husband)
Važny dokument prišel do našego ureda iz neznanej firmy. (Important document came to our office from unknown company)
Zamesto širokyh ulic, mesto buduje krasne parky. (Instead of wide streets, city builds beautiful parks)

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