The specific name is derived from the genitive form of the country of origin, Angola.

Archaic genitive forms may still appear in writing, where they are usually employed to make an article sound more "bookish" or academic.

The genitive form is Martis, so we can speak of the "Martian canals."

In some languages, this distinction includes genitive forms: see, for instance, the Danish examples below.

The clitic form is also used as a genitive form of the pronoun.

It is the indirect and genitive form of sino.

The genitive form is based on the plural form of the noun.

The short, underdifferentiated genitive forms are often disambiguated by adding the free pronoun in front.

The latter may arise from a genitive form of the former.

They are formed by adding a suffix to the genitive form of the noun.