Endrika:frr-Foehr-possessive-pronouns
Possessive determiners and pronouns (Föhr dialect)
| referent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine / neuter |
plural | ||||
| determiner | pronoun | |||||
| singular | 1st | man | min | minen | ||
| 2nd | dan | din | dinen | |||
| 3rd | san | sin | sinen | |||
| plural (general) |
1st | üüs | üüsen | |||
| 2nd | jau | jauen | ||||
| 3rd | hör | hören | ||||
| plural (collective) |
1st | üsens | ||||
| 2nd | jamens | |||||
| 3rd | hörens | |||||
| Determiner and pronoun forms are distinguished only with plural referents. The collective forms occur chiefly when the possessor is a larger community, such as a village, city or nation. Usage has always varied, however, and tends now to avoid these forms. | ||||||