Just as in English, Talossan has three ways of expressing ownership. <\/p>\n
Here are Talossan’s possessive adjectives, which always precede the noun (just as in English). Notice also that when a possessive adjective is used, the noun should not be accompanied by an article.<\/p>\n
These adjectives are all invariable for gender.<\/p>\n
Other than \u00e1r<\/em>, all of these adjectives have plural forms (vaes<\/em>, tuns<\/em>, sieux<\/em>, \u00e7a’ns<\/em>, noschtri<\/em>, voschtri<\/em>, and lors<\/em>), but it is actually very common to see the singular form used in place of the plural, other than noschtri <\/em>and voschtri<\/em>, which must be used. For example, both va vexhetal <\/em>(= my vegetable) and va vexhetais<\/em> (= my vegetables) are considered proper, although vaes vexhetais<\/em> is also sometimes seen. However, noastra vexhetais<\/em> would be improper; this must be noschtri vexhetais<\/em> (= our vegetables).<\/p>\n The adjective va <\/em>is the only one of these that elides, meaning that it loses its letter a<\/b> and gets contracted to any following noun which begins with a vowel. For example, v’aic<\/em> (= my horse).<\/p>\n Talossan’s possessive pronouns are listed below:<\/p>\n For example, el criedit fost estarh el noastra<\/em> (= the credit should be ours), and acestilor sint els lors<\/em> (= those are theirs).<\/p>\n When used of owned nouns that are feminine in grammatical gender, in most cases these same words are retained, simply with the change of article (that is, la noastra<\/em>, las voschtri<\/em>, las tuns<\/em>, etc.). However, in four cases, the pronoun (as well as the article) changes as shown below (in some cases to a word exhibiting consonant mutation) when referring to an owned-noun that has feminine gender:<\/p>\n For example, la querela fost estarh la mh\u00eda<\/em> (= the blame should be mine), and va casa c’e la thu<\/em> (= my house [it] is yours).<\/p>\n The final way to indicate ownership in Talossan is known as the “genitive mark”. This is very similar to how English uses the apostrophe-s<\/strong> in phrases like “John’s house” and “my sister’s hair”.<\/p>\n In Talossan, the genitive mark is a word, s\u00e8<\/em>, which goes in between the owning noun and the owned noun. For example, Ian s\u00e8 casa<\/em> (= John’s house) and va soror s\u00e8 caveglhen<\/em> (= my sister’s hair[s]).<\/p>\n When the owned noun begins with a vowel, then s\u00e8 <\/em>elides with it, losing its letter e<\/strong>. For example, Ian s’uglhen<\/em> (= John’s eyes) and va soror s’atit\u00fcd<\/em> (= my sister’s attitude). So you see what is “apostrophe-s<\/strong>” in English is often “s<\/strong>-apostrophe” in Talossan.<\/p>\n Just as in English, Talossan has three ways of expressing ownership. Possessive Adjectives Here are Talossan’s possessive adjectives, which always precede the noun (just as in English). Notice also that when a possessive adjective is used, the noun should not be accompanied by an article. va (= my) tu (= your) sieu (= his, her, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Possessive Pronouns<\/h2>\n
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The Genitive Mark<\/h2>\n