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Hugo75
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Username: Hugo75
Post Number: 14
Registered: 02-2011
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 02:40 pm: |     |
I have looked for the answer, but I have not found : Is the gender of the possessive pronoun the gender of the owner or of the owned?
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 3882
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 02:48 pm: | |
The gender of the owner, just as in English :
her father -> it's the father of a woman
in Irish, same thing:
a hathair -> the father of a woman.
if it's the father of a man, you say:
a athair
Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/ |
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Cead_ite
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Username: Cead_ite
Post Number: 9
Registered: 01-2011
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 05:43 pm: | |
Yeah, as Lughaidh says, it follows the gender of the owner as in English, since it's a possesive pronoun (it was originally a genitive form of the pronoun); this as opposed to French, where a possesive adjective is used, which thus accords with the gender of the thing owned. |
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