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===Possession=== | ===Possession=== | ||
Usually the genitive is placed after the noun: ''þí dżáve míns fadiers'' 'my father's gift'. | Usually the genitive is placed after the noun: ''þí dżáve míns fadiers'' 'my father's gift', but genitive before noun is acceptable too: ''míns fadiers dżáve''. | ||
For predicative possession {{PAGENAME}}, instead of using 'have' like other Germanic languages, uses a construction similar to Irish: ''At mir sinь tvý sunie.'' "I have two sons." (lit. At me are two sons, like Irish ''Tá dhá mhac agam'') | For predicative possession {{PAGENAME}}, instead of using 'have' like other Germanic languages, uses a construction similar to Irish: ''At mir sinь tvý sunie.'' "I have two sons." (lit. At me are two sons, like Irish ''Tá dhá mhac agam'') | ||