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** The ending ''-'s'' as in ''[[In Dublin's Fair City]]''. That is uncommon.
* In Classical Greek:
** "Genitive of explanation" as in {{lang-gr|italic=yes|ὑὸς μέγα χρῆμα|hyòs méga chrêma}}, "a monster (great affair) of a boar" ([[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories of Herodotus]], 1.36), where ὑὸς, the word for "''boar"'' is inflected for the genitive singular<ref>§1322 (pages 317–318), [[Herbert Weir Smyth]], revised by Gordon M. Messing, ''Greek Grammar'', Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1956 [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0007&query=head%3D%23366 Perseus Digital Library]</ref>
* In Japanese:
** Postpositive ''no'' as in: {{lang-ja|italic=yes|ふじの山|Fuji no Yama|[[Mount Fuji#Variations|the Mountain of Fuji]]}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/nounparticles|title=Noun-related Particles {{!}} Learn Japanese|website=www.guidetojapanese.org|access-date=2016-05-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=A dictionary of basic Japanese Grammar|publisher=The Japan Times|year=1986|isbn=4-7890-0454-6|pages=312}}</ref>