mehchiné
South Slavey
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English machine.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mehchiné (stem -mehchiné-)
Inflection
[edit]Possessive inflection of mehchiné (-mehchiné)
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | semehchiné | naxemehchiné | |
| 2nd person | nemehchiné | ||
| 3rd person | 1) | — | gimehchiné |
| 2) | memehchiné | gomehchiné | |
| 4th person | yemehchiné | ||
| reflexive | sp. | ɂedemehchiné | kedemehchiné |
| unsp. | demehchiné | ||
| reciprocal | — | ɂełemehchiné | |
| indefinite | ɂemehchiné | ||
| areal | gomehchiné | ||
| 1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular. 2) Used when the previous condition does not apply. | |||
References
[edit]- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 18