possessive in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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I.possessive [Brit pəˈzɛsɪv, Am pəˈzɛsɪv] ADJ

II.possessive [Brit pəˈzɛsɪv, Am pəˈzɛsɪv] N

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intolerably painful, possessive, long
intollerabilmente

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possessive in the PONS Dictionary

possessive Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be possessive about sb
avere un comportamento possessivo verso qu

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She is always seen eating meat of some sort and tends to be very possessive of it.
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Generally, all dragons are helplessly possessive, attracted to shiny objects, property, and hoarding treasure whenever and wherever possible.
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It is the plural of the possessive suffix "-escu", formerly used for patronyms and currently widespread in family names.
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However, it is also possible that "malchi" is not a possessive pronoun but genitive case.
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Like nouns, pronouns distinguish between three cases: subject, object and possessive.
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Possessive pronouns are ignored by the parser, while words pertaining to basic arithmetic are recognized as operations, such as sum, quotient, and cube.
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In languages that have a genitive case, the possessive forms corresponding to pronouns may or may not resemble the genitive of those pronouns.
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In possessive constructions, food is linked to low-status possession, but not as heavily link to high-status possession.
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Some languages use the same word for both the possessive adjective and the matching possessive pronoun.
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Possessive forms include "ngey" your and "pey" her/his.
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