Ron Kuzar's Hungarian example
Carl Mills
Carl.Mills at UC.EDU
Wed Jan 10 13:34:59 UTC 1996
An interesting note on Ron's Hungarian example. In Estonian possession
is typically indicated through the use of the addessive case. I can't
remember the word for "money" right now, so I'll substitute "a car":
Mul on auto.
first be car
singular third
addessive singular
present
literally: 'at/on/stuck to me is car'
idiomatically: 'I have a car'
I'll look through my Sami grammar to see how Sami does it.
Carl Mills
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