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: "The man's potato" | : "The man's potato" | ||
This also applies to personal pronouns, and these are generally uninflected, e.g.: | This also applies to personal pronouns, and these are generally uninflected, e.g.: | ||
: ''Patat ti ye patat man'' | : ''Patat ti ye patat man.'' | ||
: "Your potato and my potato." | : "Your potato and my potato." | ||
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 | : ''Yè grène li grèn patat. Man se reman sitè, ka patat '''son''' se bon.'' | ||
: "He was sowing potato seeds yesterday. I am very excited, as '''his''' potatoes are good." | : "He was sowing potato seeds yesterday. I am very excited, as '''his''' potatoes are good." | ||
However, unlike in French, ''son'' can also be used as a dummy genitive for first and second person: | |||
: ''Man re keyone, lo keyon '''son''' se reman che.'' | |||
: "I like to draw, so '''my''' pencils are really expensive." | |||
: ''Ti ya bon, me rezoman '''son''' se biza.'' | |||
: "You're right, but '''your''' reasoning is weird." | |||
===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'''): | ||