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|'this one's head'}} | |'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. | 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. | ||
{{interlinear| number=2.) | style2 = color:DarkMagenta; | top=''indus | {{interlinear| number=2.a.) | style2 = color:DarkMagenta; | top=''ēs indus telūrhamir tuius'' | ||
| indus-Ø | | ēs indus-Ø tel-ū=rham-ir tui-us | ||
| head-NOM.SG ''' | | COP.3SG.T head-NOM.SG mesa-ESS.SG=rham-GEN.PL mine-T.NOM.SG | ||
|' | |'My capital is telrhamir'}} | ||
{{interlinear| number=2.b.) | style2 = color:DarkMagenta; | top=''ēs ūlae (tlānae aerāniδae) indus telūrhamir'' | |||
| ēs ūl-ae (tlān-ae aerāniδ-ae) indus-Ø tel-ū=rham-ir | |||
| COP.3SG.T that_one's-C.GEN.SG (flower-GEN.SG Aeranid-C.GEN.SG) head-NOM.SG mesa-ESS.SG=rham-GEN.PL | |||
|'It's (the Aeranid Empire's) capital is telrhamir'}} | |||
==Verbs== | ==Verbs== | ||