Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin: Difference between revisions

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emphatic suffixes for prepositions with pronominal suffixes: -șă -să -șăn -șă -yă -șă -săn

The most common way to emphasize a pronoun is to use ''fen'' after it (e.g. ''mișă fen'' 'I myself'); it's also used for 'the very X' (e.g. אן קיום ףען ק'ע ''ăn giyăm fen ģe'' 'his very existence').

The most common way to emphasize a pronoun is to use ''fen'' after it or use עצם ''ețăm'' before it (e.g. ''mișă fen'' or ''ețăm mișă'' 'I myself'); it's also used for 'the very X' (e.g. אן קיום ףען ק'ע ''ăn giyăm fen ģe'' 'his very existence').

==== Possessive pronouns ====

For possession, the ''ăn levăr gum'' ('my book', lit. 'the book at me') construction is standard for most nouns except family members and body parts where possessive prefixes are used (cf. Revived Hebrew also usually uses הספר שלי ''ha-sefer šeli'' instead of ספרי ''sifri''); these nouns cannot take a definite article and must take a possessive prefix when definite.

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 emphatic suffixes for prepositions with pronominal suffixes: -șă -să -șăn -șă -yă -șă -săn
-The most common way to emphasize a pronoun is to use ''fen'' after it (e.g. ''mișă fen'' 'I myself'); it's also used for 'the very X' (e.g. אן קיום ףען ק'ע ''ăn giyăm fen ģe'' 'his very existence').
+The most common way to emphasize a pronoun is to use ''fen'' after it or use עצם ''ețăm'' before it (e.g. ''mișă fen'' or ''ețăm mișă'' 'I myself'); it's also used for 'the very X' (e.g. אן קיום ףען ק'ע ''ăn giyăm fen ģe'' 'his very existence').
 ==== Possessive pronouns ====
 For possession, the ''ăn levăr gum'' ('my book', lit. 'the book at me') construction is standard for most nouns except family members and body parts where possessive prefixes are used (cf. Revived Hebrew also usually uses הספר שלי ''ha-sefer šeli'' instead of ספרי ''sifri''); these nouns cannot take a definite article and must take a possessive prefix when definite.