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Possession of Nouns

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1. Lesson #0

2. Lesson #1 - Letters, Punctuation, & Pronunciation

3. Lesson #12 - Numbers & Basic Math

4. Lesson #2 - Pronouns, Questions, & Basic Phrases

5. Lesson #3 - Articles, Noun Affixes & Sentence Structure

6. Lesson #4 - Noun Possession

7. Lesson #5 - Verbs Pt. 1

8. Lesson #6 - Verbs Pt. 2

9. Lesson #7: Verbs Pt. 3

10. Lesson #9 - Compounding Words

11. Proverbs

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¡þawe!

¡banvedó a da 4-on tacen en tareséasen!
(Welcome to the 4th Lesson in Taresian!)

In this lesson, we’ll be going over indicating possession. The way possession is communicated changes, depending on the type of noun, as well as if the noun has an attached adjective.

[top]Possession of Base Nouns

In English, to communicate that someone possesses something, you'd use words such as 'my', 'your', 'his', 'hers', etc. In tareséasen, similar words are used. These words are simply altered versions of the pronouns, shown in the table below.

Pronoun	Posessive Pronoun
me	meya
vú	yera
bóvú	bóyera
yál	yála
sónó	sónó-a
nó	nó-a
bónó	bónó-a
im	ima
er	era
bódem	bódema
dem	dema

You might notice that most of these are simply the pronoun with an a attached at the end. The only ones that have completely unique forms are me, vú, and bóvú.

tareséasen differs from English in that these words come after the noun being possessed.

ejemes:

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[top]Possession of Nouns with Adjectives and of Proper Nouns

So far we've only talked about possessing nouns by themselves. But what happens when you have possession of a noun with an adjective attached to it, say "your old dog"? When this occurs in tareséasen, like before, pronouns change form, albeit only some of them.

Pronoun	Posessive Pronoun
me	mí
vú	yer
bóvú	bóyer
bódem	bódeyr
dem	deyr

All of the other pronouns remain in their default form in this instance.

Another difference is that when this occurs in tareséasen, the pronoun goes before the noun (and adjective) rather than after it.

ejemes:

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These changes are also used when referring to relations to other persons.

ejemes:

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