5: Uses of Nouns - Cases
IN THIS LESSON
How do you show how long something happens for?
The Genitive can be used to show for how long something happens. While in Latin, this would be rendered in the ablative case most commonly, the Greek and Oscan languages both can show this in the genitive.
The use of the Genitive of Time is most likely extended from the Genitive of Possession, since the time when something happens is naturally when it belongs to.
Here is an example, with the genitive noun in bold:
eisucen zicolom XXX nesimum - an assembly within the next thirty days