Cases and Declension: The Possession System

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Sometimes we're caught in a need of express certain things belongs to us or not, and so on. This is called possession and languages usually deal with it by using a subclass of words called possessive pronouns. Let's remember them:

Person	Possessive		Examples
	Adjective	Pronoun
I	my	mine	this is my car this car is mine
you	your	yours	this is your book this book is yours
he	his	his	this is his wallet this wallet is his
she	her	hers	these are her shoes these shoes are hers
it	its	its	that are its twigs that twigs are its
we	our	ours	this is our house this house is ours
you	your	yours	that is your farm that farm is yours
they	their	theirs	those are their husbands those husbands are theirs

Let's know right now how Jusuk manages this.

Person		Possessive Endings
English	Jusuk	words ending in vowel	words ending in consonant
I	mi	-m	-om, -em
you	ti	-d	-od, -ed
he	on	-j	-ja, -je
she
it
we	biz	-nk	-onk, -enk
you	tiz	-tok, -tek	-otok, -itek
they	onk	-juk	-juk

In Jusuk, adjective pronouns became special endings and so they get attached to the related noun. You noticed more than one option for each person because their using depends on whether the noun ends in consonant or vowel, as also as the vowel harmony.

Vowel harmony is quite simple as Turkish's (related to the latest vowel in the noun) aind involves just two vowel class (instead of that four ones in Turkish).

• last vowel is one of a, o, u → -om, -od, -ja, -onk, -tok/-otok
• last vowel is one of e, i, ö, ü → -em, -ed, -je, -enk, -tek/-itek 

Some examples:

kese da kurumom.
 → this is my car.

Albert, kese da kenjed.
 → Albert, this is your book.

kese da hazonk.
 → this is our house.

Peter i Julia, ase da falmotok
 → Peter and Julia, that is your farm.

These endings are meant for possession of single objects only.

And how get the possessive pronouns?

In Jusuk, possessive pronouns are the same personal pronouns declined to the partitive, In other words:

• mi "I" → mino "mine"
• ti "you" → tino "yours"
• on "he, she, it" → onno "his, hers, its"
• biz "we" → bizno "ours"
• tiz "you" → tizno "yours"
• onk "they" → onkno "theirs"

More examples:

Kese da mino.
 → This is mine.

Kese kurum da mino.
 → This car is mine.

Peter i Julia, ase falmo da tizno.
 → Peter and Julia, that farm is yours.

O Charlie, kese haz da bizno, mu tino.
 → Charlie, this house is ours, not yours.

O Charlie, kese haz mu tino, de bizno.
 → Charlie, this house is not yours, but ours.

Well... that's enough for now. Bye ;)