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2 unusual facts about Possessive


Possessive

Some languages, such as the Cariban languages, can be said to have a possessed case, used to indicate the other party (the thing possessed) in a possession relationship.

In German the two sets of forms are quite similar (for example, the genitive of ich "I" is meiner, the corresponding possessive pronoun is also meiner in the masculine singular nominative, and the possessive determiner is mein with various endings).


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El Shaddai

The possessive quality of the termination had lost its sense and become the lexical form of both Shaddai and Adonai, similar to how the French word Monsieur changed from meaning "my lord" to being an honorific title.

Faisal Rehman

Faisal portrayed the role of Danish, a possessive and shallow man who, on his mother's insistence marries a girl half his age and also keeps his friend, portrayed by Deepti Gupta, on her toes.

Genitive construction

Suffixaufnahme is used in some languages, and is conceptually similar to the use of possessive adjectives.

German pronouns

Archaically, the unflected possessive pronoun can be used instead, e.g. Vergißmeinnicht (instead of: "vergiß meiner nicht" or—vergessen takes the accusative as well—"vergiss mich nicht" in more modern form).

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Andie goes on to get Ben knocked out at a chick flick, rapidly moves her things into his apartment, acts overly possessive and sensitive at all times, ruins boys' poker night for him and his friends, and takes him to a Celine Dion concert when he was under the assumption he was going to see a New York Knicks basketball game.

Love Circus

The Times of India refers to the film as "A dash of Dil, a pinch of Saptapadi, sprinkled with the eloping sequence from Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak and a tad of the possessive SRK in Darr."

Pijava Gorica

The first element is probably a possessive adjective based on the oeconym Pijavec, referring to a property where water sinks into the ground.

Pipil grammar

Relationals are quasi-nouns expressing some relationship (sometimes spatial, but not always) to their possessive complement.

Two Treatises of Government

At about the same time, C. B. Macpherson argued in his Political Theory of Possessive Individualism that Hobbes and Locke stood together in laying the groundwork for proto-capitalism.


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