Person[psor]: person value of the possessor
| Values: | 1 | 2 | 3 |
In Ruuli, possessive pronouns agree both with the possessor and the possessee.
The possessor agreement is marked by the final morpheme of the possessive pronoun.
Person[psor] reflects the person value of the possessor.
1: first
The first person singular possessor is marked as nge, while the first person plural possessor is marked as iswe.
Examples
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omwana wa-nge
NC1.child NC1.PSED-1sg.PSOR
“my child” -
omwana wa-iswe
NC1.child NC1.PSED-1pl.PSOR
“our child”
2: second
The second person singular possessor is marked as amu, while the second person plural possessor is marked as nywe.
Examples
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omwana wa-amu
NC1.child NC1.PSED-2sg.PSOR
“your (sg.) child” -
omwana wa-nywe
NC1.child NC1.PSED-2pl.PSOR
“your (pl.) child”
3: third
The third person possessor is marked by a paradigm of third person markers, known as noun classes. The finer-grained value of this marker is annotated as NounClass[psor].
Examples
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omwana wa-mwe
NC1.child NC1.PSED-NC1.PSOR
“his/her child” -
omwana wa-bwe
NC1.child NC1.PSED-NC2.PSOR
“their child”
Person[psor] in other languages: [ab] [abq] [apu] [axm] [ctn] [ess] [fi] [fr] [hu] [hy] [koi] [kpv] [ky] [mdf] [myv] [ruc] [sms] [tr] [u] [uz]