From: Christophe Grandsire (christophe.grandsire@free.fr)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 17:14:35 EST
En réponse à Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@csumb.edu>:
>
> Reading orbilat.com, i found out that the other Romance languages
> *except*
> Spanish use the definite articles with the posessive pronouns,
> agreeing
> with the gender of the posessed noun.
Eh... French is still a Romance language, albeit a polysynthetic one ;))) .
>
> eumi - my
> eutu - your
> euvostro - your
> eusu - his,hers, its
> eunostro - our
>
>
> or:
>
> e'mi
> e'tu
> e'vostro
> e'su
> e'nostro
>
> or:
>
> emi
> etu
> evostro
> esu
> enostro
>
I find the first kind nicer looking. But that's my personal taste and you know
how strange it is ;))) .
As for my Romance langs:
Reman is peculiar in having no possessive adjectives (it has possessive
pronouns but they can only be used alone). To translate the possessive
adjectives, you use a construction with |dy|: of + indirect personal pronoun.
e.g.: ì get dy mi /i'gEt dymi/: my cat.
Narbonósc, like Spanish or French (and IIRC Occitan) doesn't put both
possessive adjectives and articles in front of a noun. Its possessive
adjectives are:
meu /m2/: my (masc. sg. possessee) mès /mE/: my (masc. pl. possessee)
ma /ma/: my (fem. sg. possessee) mas /ma/: my (fem. pl. possessee)
to /to/: thy (masc. sg. possessee) tous /tu/: thy (masc. pl. possessee)
ta /ta/: thy (fem. sg. possessee) tas /ta/: thy (fem. pl. possessee)
so /so/: his, her (masc. sg. p.) sous /su/: his, her (masc. pl. possessee)
sa /sa/: his, her (fem. sg. p.) sas /sa/: his, her (fem. pl. possessee)
nouêtre /nwEtr/: our (sg. p.) nouès /nwE/: our (pl. possessee)
vouêtre /vwEtr/: your (sg. p.) vouès /vwE/: your (pl. possessee)
lorr /lOr/: their (sg. possessee) lorrs /lOr/: their (pl. possessee)
My perpetually on-hold Arabo-Romance project will have Arabic-like possessives,
thus suffixes to a noun without article added in front, but the exact forms are
still unknown...
Christophe.
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