Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin: Difference between revisions

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Like Irish and Hebrew, An Yidiș has masculine and feminine genders. Hebrew words (usually) have the same gender as in Hebrew. Case only survives vestigially:

* The genitive only survives in certain expressions and compounds.

* The vocative survives only for close family members and ''Zie'' 'God': ''ă Zhie''.

* The vocative survives only for close family members and ''Zie'' 'God': ''ă mhoř'', ''ă dhřor'', ''ă dhřevăr'', ''ă Zhie''.

Possession is indicated by the construction ''ăn X ag Y'' (lit. the X at Y), for example אַן כּאַתּ אַגּ מאָ־מֿאַכּ ''ăn cat ag mă-mhac'' = my son's cat. Concatenation exists but is more derivational, analogous to compounding in English. In native head-initial concatenations, the second element of a compound is treated as an adjective for mutation purposes: ''găvăr-'''bh'''ăŗăn'' (goat female) 'she-goat' (treating ''găvăr'' as feminine).

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 Like Irish and Hebrew, An Yidiș has masculine and feminine genders. Hebrew words (usually) have the same gender as in Hebrew. Case only survives vestigially:
 * The genitive only survives in certain expressions and compounds.
-* The vocative survives only for close family members and ''Zie'' 'God': ''ă Zhie''.
+* The vocative survives only for close family members and ''Zie'' 'God': ''ă mhoř'', ''ă dhřor'', ''ă dhřevăr'', ''ă Zhie''.
 Possession is indicated by the construction ''ăn X ag Y'' (lit. the X at Y), for example אַן כּאַתּ אַגּ מאָ־מֿאַכּ ''ăn cat ag mă-mhac'' = my son's cat. Concatenation exists but is more derivational, analogous to compounding in English. In native head-initial concatenations, the second element of a compound is treated as an adjective for mutation purposes: ''găvăr-'''bh'''ăŗăn'' (goat female) 'she-goat' (treating ''găvăr'' as feminine).