Possession (to have) in Russian & Hebrew (Philological Room) Language Learning Forum

Possession (to have) in Russian & Hebrew
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Martien
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14 July 2006 at 6:55pm | IP Logged

I think this non verbal constructions that replace "to have" as a verb of possession are quite common. Russian, Japanese and Hebrew already have been given as examples but similar constructions are also used in Finnish, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi and a lot of more languages. The topic is making me curious, on a rainy day I will make a list of all the languages that behave like that consulting my collection of grammar books :)

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