{"id":134,"date":"2008-07-03T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/?page_id=134"},"modified":"2009-04-23T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T19:36:17","slug":"pronouns-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/pronouns\/pronouns-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Possessive Pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a particular possessive<\/strong> construction where, instead of a mere pronoun<\/a><\/strong>, a phrasal construction is involved. This is the counterpart to the English mine<\/em>, yours<\/em>, his<\/em>, hers<\/em>, ours<\/em>, yours<\/em>, and theirs<\/em>. In this construction the word \u0645\u0627\u0644 m\u0101l<\/em> \u2018belonging, possession\u2019 is used preceding the subject pronouns, in an ez\u0101fe<\/em> construction, as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
mine<\/td>\nm\u0101l-e man<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_01]\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0645\u0646[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
yours single<\/em><\/td>\nm\u0101l-e to<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_02]\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u062a\u0648[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
his\/hers<\/td>\nm\u0101l-e u<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_03]\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0648[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ours<\/td>\nm\u0101l-e m\u0101<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_04]\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0645\u0627[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
yours plural<\/em><\/td>\nm\u0101l-e \u0161om\u0101<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_05]\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0634\u0645\u0627[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
theirs<\/td>\nm\u0101l-e \u0101nh\u0101<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_06]\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0622\u0646\u0647\u0627[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
This house is mine.<\/td>\nin x\u0101ne m\u0101l-e man ast<\/em><\/td>\n\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_07]\u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u062e\u0627\u0646\u0647 \u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
single<\/em>, That book is yours.<\/td>\n\u0101n ket\u0101b m\u0101l-e to ast<\/em><\/td>\n\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_08]\u0622\u0646 \u06a9\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0645\u0627\u0644 \u062a\u0648 \u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The pencil which is on
\nthe table is his\/hers.<\/td>\n		med\u0101di ke ru-ye miz ast,
\n m\u0101l-e u ast<\/em> <\/td>\n		\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_09]\u0645\u062f\u0627\u062f\u06cc \u06a9\u0647 \u0631\u0648\u06cc \u0645\u06cc\u0632 \u0627\u0633\u062a\u066c \u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0648 \u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This car is ours.<\/td>\nin m\u0101\u0161in m\u0101l-e m\u0101 ast<\/em><\/td>\n\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_10]\u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u0645\u0627\u0634\u06cc\u0646 \u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0645\u0627 \u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
plural and formal<\/em>, The first
\nhouse is yours.<\/td>\n		x\u0101ne-ye avval m\u0101l-e \u0161om\u0101 ast<\/td>\n\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_11]\u062e\u0627\u0646\u0647\u0654 \u0627\u0648\u0651\u0644 \u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0634\u0645\u0627 \u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The third bell is theirs.<\/td>\nzang-e sevom m\u0101l-e \u0101nh\u0101 ast<\/em><\/td>\n\n[tag resources possessivepronouns_12]\u0632\u0646\u06af \u0633\u0648\u0645 \u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0622\u0646\u0647\u0627 \u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Since the word \u0645\u0627\u0644 means ‘belonging’ it is not used in the case of family members. In other words, one would never say,[tag resources possessivepronouns_13] \u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u067e\u062f\u0631 \u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]= “This father is mine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a particular possessive construction where, instead of a mere pronoun, a phrasal construction is involved. This is the counterpart to the English mine, yours, his, hers, ours, yours, and theirs. In this construction the word \u0645\u0627\u0644 m\u0101l \u2018belonging, possession\u2019 is used preceding the subject pronouns, in an ez\u0101fe construction, as follows: mine m\u0101l-e […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions\/3719"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}