Aeranir: Difference between revisions

Objects of inalienable possession are marked with the genitive of a personal or demonstrative pronoun.  These include body parts, kinship and familiarity terms, personal attributes, emotions, or thoughts.  These pronouns generally proceed the possessee, although that is not always the case, especially in poety.  Singular pronouns ''tī'', ''nī'', ''cī'', ''sī'', ''ustī'', and ''ūlī'' may be appear as ''tei'', ''nei'', ''cei'', ''sei'', ''usti'', ''ūli'' before words starting with a vowel, and ''te'', ''ne'', ''ce'', ''se'', ''ust'', ''ūl'' before words starting with ''i''.

|'this one's head'}}

Alienable possession, including essentially all other categories, is marked via possessive adjectives.  These adjective may appear either before or after the possessee, but usually come afterwards.  Oftentimes, the different use of alienable/inalienable pronouns may hint at a difference in meaning.  The word '''''indus''''', for example, may mean 'head,' but also 'capital' or 'leader.'  With inalienable pronouns, however, it always means 'head,' versus with alienable pronouns, it means 'capital,' or 'leader' because while a head is inalienable, a capital or leader is not.  However, this might not always be the case, depending on the possessor and context.

|'My capital is Telhramir'}}

|'Its (the Aeranid Empire's) capital is Telrhamir'}}