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fi. The possessive. 

 Simple form. With li predicative, 



vmmi, mine. vmmih, it is mine, 



chimmi, thine. chimmih. it is thine, 



immi, his, hers. immih, it is his, hers, 



pimmi, ours (def ). pimmih, it is ours, 



hvpimmi, ours (dis). hvpimmih. it is ours, 



hvchimmi, yours. hvchimmih, it is yours, 



immi, theirs. immih, it is theirs. 



The reciprocal forms of this pronoun are: ittimmi, each other's; ittimmih, 

 they are each other's, singular and plural. 



§ 7. Personal-and-possessive pronouns. 

 Simple form. With li predicative. 



Definite, ilap. The, she, it, and ilapah| 



ilapa < his, hers, its, his own, ilapah f g^^ 

 Distinctive, ilapo [ they, theirs, their own. ilapoh J 



The first and second persons are formed by prefixing inseparable per- 

 sonal pronouns; thus: 



salap, I myself, me myself, 

 chilap, thou thyself, thee thyself, 

 pilap, we, us, ourselves (def). 

 hvpilap, we, us, ourselves (dis). 

 hvchilap, you yourselves, 

 And to these again the inseparable possessive pronouns maybe suffixed; 

 thus : 



Def. ilapi, ilapim, ilapin, his own, her own, their own, 

 Dis. ilapoi, ilapoim, ilapoin, his own, etc. 



Examples: Mark I. 34, ilapa okla ithana hatuk o, because they knew 

 Mm; Mat. X. 32, vno ak kia ilapa, I also hm; John XIII. 3, ilap ak o 

 ibbak a, his hands. 



§ 8. The separable pronouns are the same for all genders, as are also all 

 other pronouns, nouns, and verbs. They take the article-pronouns for the 

 purpose of specification, emphasis and case. They can all take the inten- 

 sive pronoun inli, self; e. g.: vno inli, I myself too; sia liak inli, ilap ak 

 inli, etc. 



II INSEPAEABLE PRONOUNS. 



§ 9. These are of seven classes, 1, subjective-personal, 2, objective-per- 

 sonal, 3, objective-possessive, 4, reflexive, 5, reciprocal personal, 6, recip- 

 rocral possessive, 7, the marriage or sacred pronoun. They are always 

 prefixed (except li, I,) to the words with which they are in concord, and 

 are never used alone. 



§ 10 The subjective-personal. 

 Affirmative form. Negative foi-m. 



h(asufax,)I. ak, Inot. 



ish, is, thou. chik, thou not. 



