Grammatical term for the case that marks possession or association, such as English 'of' or the possessive 's.
The 's in 'John's book' is a genitive case marker.
Japanese 'no' can be used as a genitive particle.
Accusative case; marks the direct object of a verb.
From 属 (ぞく, 'belonging') + 格 (かく, 'case'), a calque of the Western grammatical term 'genitive case'.