Possessives - Revision history

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Jacob: New page: Aim - be able to describe ownership using possessive markers (my/your/our etc). Possessive expressions are formed using a possessive marker, which depends on the noun class of the thing p...

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New page: Aim - be able to describe ownership using possessive markers (my/your/our etc). Possessive expressions are formed using a possessive marker, which depends on the noun class of the thing p...

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Aim - be able to describe ownership using possessive markers (my/your/our etc).

Possessive expressions are formed using a possessive marker, which depends on the noun class of the thing possessed.

=== Template table 3 column===
{| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1"
| mosadi wa motsomi || the wife of the hunter || (mosadi = class 1)
|-
| molomo wa tau || the mouth of the lion || (molomo = class 3)
|-
| lee la ntshe || the egg of the ostrich || (lee = class 5)
|-
| selepe sa kgosi || the axe of the chief || (selepe = class 7)
|-
| ditlhako tsa ngwana || the shoes of the child || (ditlhako = class 8)
|}

The possessive markers are formed by taking the subject marker and adding "a" as follows:

=== Possessive Markers ===
{| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1"
| Class 1 || Mosadi || o + a|| wa
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| Class 2 || Batho || ba + a || ba
|-
| Class 3 || Molomo || o + a || wa
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| x || x || x || x
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| x || x || x || x
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| x || x || x || x
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| x || x || x || x
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| x || x || x || x
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| x || x || x || x
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| x || x || x || x
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| x || x || x || x
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| x || x || x || x
|}

=== Personal Possessive ===

{| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1"
| mine || - me || ngwana wa me|| my child
|-
| your || - gago || dilepe tsa gago || your x
|-
| his/her || - gagwe || baithuti ba gagwe || his/her x
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| our || - rona || ngwana wa rona || our child
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| your (plural) || - lona || Ditonki tsa lona || x
|-
| their || - bone || ngwana wa bane || thier child
|}

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		+	=== Possession question - Whose ? ===

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	=== Descriptive Possessives		=== Descriptive Possessives

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	=== Possession with a Person's Name===		=== Possession with a Person's Name===

		+	When a name or kinship term is used with a possessive, the word "ga" is added before the name
		+	{\| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1"
		+	\| ngwana wa ga Neo \|\| Neo's child
		+	\|-
		+	\| ke mosese wa ga Nthati \|\| it is Nthati's dress
		+	\|-
		+	\| re bonye dikgomo tsa ga Dikeledi \|\| we saw Dikeledi's cattle
		+	\|-
		+	\| ba badile dibuka tsa ga Shakespeare \|\| they read Shakespeare's books
		+	\|-
		+	\| dinsta tsa gago di bolaile dipodi tsa ga maolme \|\| your dogs have killed my uncle's goats
		+	\|}

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	\| their \|\| - bone \|\| ngwana wa bane \|\| thier child		\| their \|\| - bone \|\| ngwana wa bane \|\| thier child
	\|}		\|}
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		+	=== Possession with a Person's Name===
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		+	=== Possession question - Whose ? ===
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		+	=== Descriptive Possessives

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 | Class 3 || Molomo || o + a || wa
 |-
-| x || x || x || x
+| Class 4 || mesese || e + a || ya
 |-
-| x || x || x || x
+| Class 5 || legodu || le + a || la
 |-
-| x || x || x || x
+| Class 6 || makgowa || a + a || a
 |-
-| x || x || x || x
+| Class 7 || Setswana || se + a || sa
 |-
-| x || x || x || x
+| Class 8 || dimumu || di + a || tsa
 |-
-| x || x || x || x
+| Class 9 || koloi || e + a || ya
 |-
-| x || x || x || x
+| Class 10 || diphologolo || di + a || tsa
 |-
-| x || x || x || x
+| Class 11 || lorole || lo + a || xxx
 |-
-| x || x || x || x
+| Class 12 || dikgong || di + a || tsa
 |-
-| x || x || x || x
+| Class 14 || borotha || bo + a || xxxx
 |-
-| x || x || x || x
+| Class 15 || go ithuta || go + a || xxxx
 |}

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 Possessive expressions are formed using a possessive marker, which depends on the noun class of the thing possessed.
 {| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1"
 | mosadi wa motsomi || the wife of the hunter || (mosadi = class 1)