ögnar
Cimbrian
Determiner
ögnar (plural ögnarn, bon/dar ögnarn) (Sette Comuni)
- our
- Dar ögnar éezel isset bonallame.
- Our donkey eats everything.
- d'ögnarn prüdare un d'ögnarn sbéstare
- our brothers and sisters
- òone bon ögnarn öoben
- one of our sheep
- ours
- De khua ist ögnar.
- The cow is ours.
Usage notes
- Possessive determiners are only fully inflected when used in exclamations.
- Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
- The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
- Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
- Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.
Inflection
| Inflection of ögnar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
| ögnardar | ögnara | ögnares | ögnare | |
| These inflections are only used in exclamations. | ||||
See also
| Possessive determiners | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| 1st person | main | ögnar |
| 2nd person | dain | ôar |
| 3rd person | zain | |
References
- “ögnar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo