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In practice, the ablative and locative are, in speech, often replaced with the dative and accusative respectively, and their usage in personal pronouns is considered formal and archaic. Meanwhile, personal pronouns are the only aspect of Dogrish grammar where across the five standard varieties the vocative is still commonly used. | In practice, the ablative and locative are, in speech, often replaced with the dative and accusative respectively, and their usage in personal pronouns is considered formal and archaic. Meanwhile, personal pronouns are the only aspect of Dogrish grammar where across the five standard varieties the vocative is still commonly used. | ||
=====The genitive===== | |||
The genitive can be declined according to the gender of the word which it refers to. For example: | The genitive can be declined according to the gender of the word which it refers to. For example: | ||
: ''Hveres ert husið?'' | : ''Hveres ert husið?'', "Whose (the) house is [it]?", or more accurately "Who does the house belong to?" | ||
: ''Husið ert '''mítt''''', "The house is mine". | |||
Here the 1st person genitive personal pronoun refers to a neuter word and thus becomes ''mítt''. Compare: | |||
: ''Hveres ert mannen?'', "Whose (the) husband is [that]?" | |||
: ''Han ert '''mínn''''', "He is mine". | |||
Here the 1st person genitive personal pronoun refers to a masculine word and thus becomes ''mínn.'' | |||
When referring to an animate object such as a person or an animal, the gender of the animate object becomes leading rather than the grammatical gender. For example: | |||
: ''Hveres ert mejlínið?'', "Whose (the) girl) is [that]?" | |||
: ''Hun ert '''mínna''''', "She is mine". | |||
Despite ''mejlín'' being grammatically neuter, due to the word referring to a feminine person it is declined in the feminine. | |||
Up until the early 21st century, using the neuter to decline personal pronouns referring to animate objects was considered highly offensive. If a person's gender was not known, declension defaulted to the masculine. | |||
However, since the early 2020s, especially in the larger and more progressive cities of Dogger, it has become more common to use the neuter to refer to nonbinary individuals or to individuals whose gender is unknown. In all varieties of Dogrish it has become accepted to refer to individuals whose gender is unknown in the 3rd person neuter and to decline the genitive using the neuter. In 2023, the Valley Dogrish Language Authority officially declared the usage of the neuter to refer to nonbinary persons grammatically correct. | |||
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