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==== Possession ==== | ==== Possession ==== | ||
Possession comes in 3 different flavours | Possession comes in 3 different flavours in Gallifreyan: Basic Possession, Indicative Possession and Complex Possession. The easiest way to understand them is with examples. | ||
Basic Possession is pretty much what its name says, basic. It's composed of the preposition | Basic Possession is pretty much what its name says, basic. It's composed of the preposition ''fagts'' [θagt͡s] (of) and a personal pronoun on its Indirect Object form. | ||
* '''My''' book → '''fagts pawah''' vuranovi | |||
Indicative Possession is exactly like Basic Possession except this one is used with demostrative pronouns and the suffixes'' 'heç'' [eç] for nouns ending in a vowel and'' 'ehç'' [ʔehçə] for nouns ending in consonants. | |||
* ''This is'' '''my''' book → ''niat'' '''fagts pawah''' vuranovi''<nowiki>'</nowiki>heç'' | |||
Complex Possession is used when talking about an object owned by a third party generally not present. It's formed with the particle ''abo'' [abo] after the owned object. | |||
* The mother''''s''' book → '''abo''' vuranovi bandfro'hu | |||
It is also possible to mix all 3 in a sentence like the following example: | It is also possible to mix all 3 in a sentence like the following example: | ||
* This is my mother's book → niat abo vuranovi'heç fagts pawah bandfro'hu | |||
==== Emotional Words ==== | ==== Emotional Words ==== | ||