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En réponse à Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@hidden.email>: > > Reading orbilat.com, i found out that the other Romance languages > *except* > Spanish use the definite articles with the posessive pronouns, > agreeing > with the gender of the posessed noun. Eh... French is still a Romance language, albeit a polysynthetic one ;))) . > > eumi - my > eutu - your > euvostro - your > eusu - his,hers, its > eunostro - our > > > or: > > e'mi > e'tu > e'vostro > e'su > e'nostro > > or: > > emi > etu > evostro > esu > enostro > I find the first kind nicer looking. But that's my personal taste and you know how strange it is ;))) . As for my Romance langs: Reman is peculiar in having no possessive adjectives (it has possessive pronouns but they can only be used alone). To translate the possessive adjectives, you use a construction with |dy|: of + indirect personal pronoun. e.g.: ì get dy mi /i'gEt dymi/: my cat. Narbonósc, like Spanish or French (and IIRC Occitan) doesn't put both possessive adjectives and articles in front of a noun. Its possessive adjectives are: meu /m2/: my (masc. sg. possessee) mès /mE/: my (masc. pl. possessee) ma /ma/: my (fem. sg. possessee) mas /ma/: my (fem. pl. possessee) to /to/: thy (masc. sg. possessee) tous /tu/: thy (masc. pl. possessee) ta /ta/: thy (fem. sg. possessee) tas /ta/: thy (fem. pl. possessee) so /so/: his, her (masc. sg. p.) sous /su/: his, her (masc. pl. possessee) sa /sa/: his, her (fem. sg. p.) sas /sa/: his, her (fem. pl. possessee) nouêtre /nwEtr/: our (sg. p.) nouès /nwE/: our (pl. possessee) vouêtre /vwEtr/: your (sg. p.) vouès /vwE/: your (pl. possessee) lorr /lOr/: their (sg. possessee) lorrs /lOr/: their (pl. possessee) My perpetually on-hold Arabo-Romance project will have Arabic-like possessives, thus suffixes to a noun without article added in front, but the exact forms are still unknown... Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.