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Pronominal adjectives - such as ''polc'' "many" (f. ''poltá'', n. ''poltom''), ''somals'' "all" (f. ''somalá'', n. ''somalom''), ''himbi'' (f. ''himbá'', n. ''himbim'') "both" - follow nominal declensions. The pronominal adjective ''máˤn'' (f. ''máˤná'', n. ''máˤnt'') "no", however, is declined like the demonstrative ''hiˤn''. | Pronominal adjectives - such as ''polc'' "many" (f. ''poltá'', n. ''poltom''), ''somals'' "all" (f. ''somalá'', n. ''somalom''), ''himbi'' (f. ''himbá'', n. ''himbim'') "both" - follow nominal declensions, and have possessive forms. The pronominal adjective ''máˤn'' (f. ''máˤná'', n. ''máˤnt'') "no", however, is declined like the demonstrative ''hiˤn''. | ||
Nominalized adjectives have a special possessive form in '''-áh-''' for all genders. In older Lifashian, there were three forms (''-ah-'' (masculine), ''-áh-'' (feminine), ''-eh-'' (neuter)), a distinction that eventually collapsed in favour of the feminine form (which has a long vowel like most nominative forms of the adjective) sometime around the mid-18th century across the whole Lifashian-speaking area. | |||
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