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| Possessive pronouns are words like: ''mine, yours, his, hers'' etc and possessive adjectives ''my, your, our'' etc. They show possession or ''to whom'' or ''what'' something belongs to. However, in dal'qörian, there are no ''possessive pronouns/adjectives''. There are three ways in which dal'qörian equates possession. (see also '''Cases''' for genitive possession).
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| '''Possessive adjectives'''.
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| Possessive adjectives are ''my, your, our, their, her, his, its'', and need an object or noun to function:
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| * That’s my pint!
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| * It’s your turn.
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| * It wasn’t her sister that was killed.
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| * They said his heart just gave up.
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| These do not exist in dal'qörian. The equivalent is formed with the preposition '''qve'''-''of'' and an ''accusative'' pronoun:
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| * '''taÞ di bréj qve binöra'''. ''That’s my pint!'' (lit: ''That is the pint of me'').
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| * '''tiÞ di reliaÞ qve diöra'''. ''It’s your turn''. (lit: ''It's the turn of you'').
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| * '''tiÞ di siaberöj qve siöra, taÞ gä’estingörax'''. ''It wasn’t her sister that died''. (lit: ''It is the sister of her, that died not'').
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| * '''éren gä’ságr,, taÞ di läbendéj qve mæöra ænÞalas gä’laƒildr'''. ''They said his heart just gave up''. (lit: ''They said, that the heart of him simply gave up'').
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| * '''taÞ di vötöj qve binöra'''. ''That’s my car''. (lit: ''That is the car of me'').
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| '''Possesive pronouns'''
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| These are ''mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs, its'' and do not need an object to function:
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| * Is that book ''hers''? No, its ''mine''. (my book)
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| * Whose is this chocolate? It’s ''his/hers/ours/theirs''.
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| Again, there are no literal equivalents in dal'qörian. Instead, the verb '''gehör'''-''to belong'' and the preposition '''máriÞ'''-''with'' are used to equate these. However, you do not say ''it belongs '''with me'''''; the possession is reversed and you say ''I belong '''with it''''': (''with it/with that'' are contracted to '''mátiÞ/mátaÞ''';see '''Prepositions'''), or ''I belong with'' plus the object:
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| * '''vehiri? mátiÞ vötöj gehör'''. ''Whose is this car?'' (lit: ''Who, with this car, belongs?'').
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| ** '''binä, mátiÞ, gehör'''. ''It’s mine/it belongs to me''. (lit: ''I, with it, belong'').
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| * '''mæ, mátaÞ abödä, gehör'''. ''That’s his house''. (lit: ''He, with that house, belongs'').
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| * '''diö, mátaÞ gletéäjel, gehörax, néƒaracte'''? ''That’s not your jewellery, is it?'' (lit: ''You, with that jewellery, belong not, not true?'')
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| ** '''nál, sia, mátiÞ, gehör'''. ''No, it’s hers''. (lit: ''No, she, with it, belongs'').
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| Where there is an ''adjectival comparison'' using possessive pronouns, dal'qörian, must use the ''possessive adjective'' form with the object it is comparing. So, sentences such as:
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| * Ours is bigger than yours! (talking about ''houses'' for example) must include the object being talked about:
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| * '''di abödä qve ménöra te’giÞrö nas di abödä qve diöra!''' ''Ours is bigger than yours!'' (lit: ''The house of us is bigger than the house of you!'')
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