Re: Definite article + posessive pronoun

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# Reading orbilat.com, i found out that the other Romance languages *except*
# Spanish use the definite articles with the posessive pronouns, agreeing
# with the gender of the posessed noun. So, of course i have to add this
# feature to Montreiano (so sue me, i got busy and hand't decided this small
# detail :))
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Not that it's entirely relevant, but in my very casual portuguese, the
definite article is pretty much only realized with the posessive
when it attaches to prepositions thus, i would say:


meu bairro é bonito.    my neighborhood is pretty.      no definite art.
tou no meu bairro.      i am in my neighborhood.        def art.
vou pro meu bairro.     i'm going to my neighborhood.   def art.

no  = em + o    (in the)
pro = para + o  (to the)

(this is where the native portuguese speakers can tell me i'm a hick :)

just thought it might be something intresting to incorporate into a
language...

-tim
http://www.zece.com/conlang/

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