"Η αναζήτηση της γυναίκας"

Translation: The woman's search

[Lensman400]

Η αναζήτηση της γυναίκας: I translated as "the search for the woman" but the alternative was "the woman's search". These translations appear to be contradictory with woman being both subject and object of the verb.

[mizinamo]

That's right. The genitive can refer to either the subject or the object of an implied verb.

Similarly in English - if you talk about the love of a parent, then the parent is the one who loves (the subject of loving), but when you talk about a love of music, then the music is the thing which gets loved (the object of loving).

So here too, η αναζήτηση της γυναίκας can have the genitive της γυναίκας referring to either the subject or object of the implied verb αναζητώ "search": the fact that the woman searched for something, or the fact that someone searched for the woman.

[Niko402650]

So can it mean either or? Is it just dependent on context?

[mizinamo]

So can it mean either or? Is it just dependent on context?

Exactly.

[Jon345104]

The search of the women got marked wrong

[mizinamo]

The search of the women got marked wrong

της γυναίκας is singular, so it would have to be "of the woman".

Plural "of the women" would be των γυναικών.

[Marijke828173]

Research was marked wrong, but this word was one of the meanings given before. Could it be okay?