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Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Monday, November 12, 2001, 22:11
From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>
> Hi! > > Muke Tever <alrivera@...> writes: > > > > "mine" and "thine" were derived possessive adjectives, like Ger. "mein" and > > "dein". [Actually, doesn't German have four or five such ones in -ein ?] > > Five possesives ending in -ein? I only know three: mein, dein, sein. > > Then there's `kein' and the article `ein' and the adjectives `fein' > and `rein', but these only rhyme. :-)
You're probably right ;) I don't know German. *Muke!