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| furrykef Senior Member United States furrykef.com/ Joined 6472 days ago 681 posts - 862 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Latin, Italian | Message 9 of 9 12 April 2010 at 9:10am | IP Logged |
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I don't speak German, but I think I see what the problem is here.
When adoggie says "genitive pronoun", I think she means the genitive case of personal pronouns, like how the genitive of "ich" is "meiner". All these forms end in -er, as given in this table. When adoggie says "possessive adjective" (more accurately "possessive pronoun"), she means, for example, the adjective "mein" and all its forms: mein, meinen, meinem, meines, etc. -- it is these that sometimes end in nothing or -em. The Wikipedia article says, though, that the genitive of personal pronouns is archaic, so usually the possessive pronouns -- mein, meinen, etc. -- are used to indicate possession. So I wouldn't worry about the genitive case of personal pronouns like "ich". - Kef 1 person has voted this message useful |
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