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 The predominant use of the genitive today is not syntactical, but merely as a derivational element forming nominal compounds. Its use in marking possession has been completely taken by the particle ''twe'', which declines according to the gender of the possessed noun: ''twe'' is the masculine singular form; ''twā'' the feminine singular; ''tō'' the neuter singular; ''twī'' masculine and feminine plural and ''tā'' neuter plural.
+''Twe-''genitives are attested throughout all of Elodian history but became predominant around the late 18th and early 19th century. Lexicalized genitive compounds include, predictably, many proper nouns, mostly dating back to the earliest attestations of Elodian (such as the Manichaean sacred texts: ''Fūš Hullehē'' "Treasure of Life" and ''Tuwfā Īnuhow'' "Arzhang" (lit. "Book of Arts"), or also ''Mālē Hiwozoɂlā'' (lit. "self-born mother"), which in Elodian Manichaeism corresponds to the Father of Greatness), but also common nouns which date back to some centuries (''falem nehtay'' "bedroom") as well as many recently coined words (''goys nehtay'' "bedroom community" (lit. "village of the bed"), ''ball mosǝ̄bakehē'' "match point", ''falem karaokey'' "karaoke club").
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