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--- en:grammar:pronouns [2022-12-24 10:06] – [Personal pronouns] Table alignment christian
+++ en:grammar:pronouns [2023-01-04 10:40] – [Possessive pronouns] Explain why we we use separate possessive pronouns christian
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 XXX Explain that possessive pronouns can be (and typically are) omitted when the context makes the situation of possession reasonably clear. This is especially the case when referring to one's own relatives, body parts, cloths and similar things one wears on one's body, e.g. 'her sister, my teeth, his cloak' etc. Likewise they may be used once but are subsequently omitted in cases such as 'my car'.
+//Rationale:// Seven of our ten source languages have separate possessive forms of the pronouns (all except for Chinese, Japanese, and Swahili), therefore Lugamun uses such separate forms as well. And seven source languages place the possessive pronoun before the noun (all except for Arabic, Indonesian, and Swahili), therefore Lugamun uses the same placement.
 ===== The reflexive and intensifying pronoun “sem” =====