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| adoggie Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6533 days ago 160 posts - 159 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 1 of 9 09 April 2010 at 8:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Are genitive pronouns (eg. seines, meiner) simply one type of possessive adjectives (eg. sein, meinen)? Can somebody list them?
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6909 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 9 09 April 2010 at 3:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Possessives change according to gender, number and case, and the pattern is available here:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sein Scroll down to "inflection" (close to the bottom of the page) and click "show". Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 10 April 2010 at 12:15am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5352 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 3 of 9 09 April 2010 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, Jeff is correct, they are declined for numerous items. Below is a link with a chart depicting many examples:
http://german.speak7.com/german_pronouns.htm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| adoggie Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6533 days ago 160 posts - 159 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 4 of 9 10 April 2010 at 1:56am | IP Logged | ||
So the possessive adjectives are all declined like definite and indefinite articles. How do genitive pronouns fit into the picture? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| adoggie Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6533 days ago 160 posts - 159 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 5 of 9 10 April 2010 at 2:14am | IP Logged | ||
Does this mean that genitive pronouns always end in -es and -er? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| adoggie Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6533 days ago 160 posts - 159 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 6 of 9 11 April 2010 at 5:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes? No?
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 9 11 April 2010 at 8:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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No. Sometimes they end in nothing ("sein") or in -em.
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| adoggie Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6533 days ago 160 posts - 159 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 8 of 9 12 April 2010 at 7:51am | IP Logged | ||
I have absolutely no idea what that means. Could you please elaborate on that? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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