Talk:Possessive suffix
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[edit] A word left out in the introductory text? (knowing Nenets morphology is required to correct it properly)
Did you leave out the word person in
- Complicated systems are found in the Uralic languages; for example, the Nenets language has 27 (3×3×3) different forms for expressing the possessor (first, second, third), the number of possessors (singular, dual, plural) and the number of objects (singular, dual, plural).
--Imz 02:35, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Russian
While I don't know anything about the Russian language, I've heard that the –ин (–in) suffix is a possesive one. Could someone that knowns Russian add something about it? --Dandin1 18:34, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
- Russian grammar does not mention that suffix, nor anything that sounds like a possessive suffix. Googling for "ин" plus "suffix", I do find that some pages use the term "possessive suffix" to describe "-ин", but they seem to mean something different by it: it seems that adding the suffix "ин" to a Russian noun serves rather like adding the preposition "of" to an English one, enabling a possessive relationship to be shown. (I'm not sure how this differs from a simple genitive case ending, which Russian grammar lists a bunch of, but it seems to be in the same vein.) Ruakh 14:30, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
