Re: THEORY: The fourth person
| From: | Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 30, 2004, 19:11 |
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Russian has too.
On slomal evo/ejo mashinu > He broke his/her car
(somebody else's car)
On slomal svoju mashinu > He broke his (own) car.
In French, it's pitiful:
Il a casse' sa voiture: His car ? Her car ? His own
car ? No possibility to know, except by context. 'Sa'
is feminine because 'car' is feminine in French. Very
irrational.
--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>
> I remember that Swedish has 'hans bil'- 'his(other
> person's) car'
> vs. 'sin bil' - 'his(own) car'.
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Philippe Caquant
"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)
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