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: ''Patat ti ye patat man'' | : ''Patat ti ye patat man'' | ||
: "Your potato and my potato." | : "Your potato and my potato." | ||
However, if the possessor can be inferred from context(usually if a specific personal pronoun was previously used), then ''son'' is used(from French ''son'', the third-person genitive personal pronoun): | |||
: ''Yè grène li grèn patat. Man se leman sitè, ka patat '''son''' se bwon.'' | |||
: "He was sowing potato seeds yesterday. I am very excited, as '''his''' potatoes are good." | |||
===Word order & tense=== | ===Word order & tense=== | ||
Tense in Péla is, peculiarly, primarily indicated by word order. SVO(subject-verb-object) indicates present tense, as so(verbs indicated in '''bold'''): | Tense in Péla is, peculiarly, primarily indicated by word order. SVO(subject-verb-object) indicates present tense, as so(verbs indicated in '''bold'''): | ||