Dal'qörian possesive pronouns and adjectives

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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).

Possessive adjectives.

Possessive adjectives are my, your, our, their, her, his, its, and need an object or noun to function:

• That’s my pint!

• It’s your turn.

• It wasn’t her sister that was killed.

• They said his heart just gave up.

These do not exist in dal'qörian. The equivalent is formed with the preposition qve-of and an accusative pronoun:

• taÞ di bréj qve binöra. That’s my pint! (lit: That is the pint of me).

• tiÞ di reliaÞ qve diöra. It’s your turn. (lit: It's the turn of you).

• 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).

• 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).

• taÞ di vötöj qve binöra. That’s my car. (lit: That is the car of me).