маань

Mongolian

Mongolian	Cyrillic
ᠮᠠᠨᠢ (mani)	маань (maanʹ)

Etymology

From манай (manaj, “our”, first-person plural possessive determiner).

Compare Buryat -мнай (-mnaj), -най (-naj) and also Kalmyk -мдн (-mdn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæːn/, [mæ̝ːn]

Particle

маань • (maanʹ)

1. Forming the first-person plural possession

   Дорж багштай маань ― Dorž bagštaj maanʹ ― with our teacher Dorj

Usage notes

As a possessive particle, маань is always placed after case suffixes, particles (дахь², лугаа², руу⁴, шиг), and postpositions.

Structurally unlike in Buryat or Turkic, additional modification of [substantive] маань with determiner манай is invalid. Therefore, a first-person plural possession in Mongolian may only be formed as манай [substantive] or [substantive] маань.