Re: Ethnologue
| From: | James Landau <neurotico@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 10, 2003, 19:32 |
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On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:05:28 +0100, Christophe Grandsire <
christophe.grandsire@...> parisen:
>En réponse à Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...>:
>
>>
>> Esperanto has a genitive indeed, but only for 5 words:
>> - ies, genitive of iu;
>> - kies, genitive of kiu;
>> - ties, genitive of tiu;
>> - cies, genitive of ciu;
>> - nenies, genitive of neniu.
>>
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>True, but is it worth mentioning that Esperanto has a genitive for only five
>words? :))
>
>> Err... Isn't "Zamenhofa" the genitive of "Zamenhof"?
>
>As much as "Parisian" is the genitive of "Paris". -a marks adjectives.
>So "Zamenhofa" is an adjective derived from the noun "Zamenhof" (you can
>translate it as "Zamenhofian". Some languages do have an adjectival form
>instead of a genitive, but in the case of Esperanto the two things have a
>slightly different meaning.
Uhh . . . how about THESE genitives?
mia . . . genitive of mi
via . . . genitive of vi
lia . . . genitive of li
sxia . . . genitive of sxi
gxia . . . genitive of gxi
nia . . . genitive of ni
ilia . . . genitive of ili
sia . . . genitive of si
cia . . . genitive of ci
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