Genitive Absolute

A noun and a participle in the genitive case and not modifying anything else in the sentence is a “genitive absolute”; see BBG 30.9 or this video.

You will translate genitive absolutes with a dependent clause.

• The genitive noun will become the subject;

• the genitive participle will be the verb.

The DMW will depend on the tense;

• if present, use “while” or “because”;

• if aorist, use “after”.

Ninety percent of genitive absolutes are temporal (GGBB 655).