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Re: Uusisuom language (Online lesson)

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 28, 2001, 21:15
> Possession and partitive are expressed the same way in Finnish, it is not > unique to Uusisuom.
Hm. My Finnish is a bit coarse, so I will have to rely on my knowledge of Votian and Ingrian Finnish here... How exactly do you mean that "possession" and "partitive" are expressed the same way? toppi vetta:a: (pot of water) which is partitive, is not quite same as /ve'en toppi/ (the pot of the water, ie. belonging to the water). Perhaps /vesi/ isn't a very good example because of it's very irregular root forms, so let's try another example, also from Ingrian: tee rautaa (road of iron), rauta (iron) in partitive. rautan kylmyys (coldness of iron), showing possession. The forms are quite different. Perhaps you have mixed up the uses of "of" into one? As English doesn't (in my mind at least!) have a very effective partitive... -------ferko Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Suurt chugunikka peene ahjo suhe et toukka. Virtual Votia - Vaddjamaa Internetaza: http://www.geocities.com/uralica railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ 25kV 50Hz: http://www.mp3.com/25kV50Hz

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