Prussian/Genitive Nouns

The Genitive case describes the possessor of a sentence. (The man's dog is brown.) Vocabulary mērgā = girl minsāwi = bowl zuppi = soup grazzus = beautiful, pretty kāits = hot wārmis = red debīks = big, large stas = that malnīks = child Sentences Mērgas pippelis ast grazzus. = The girl's bird is pretty. Tenesse spīlakugis ast wārmis. = His ball is red. Nussan buttan ast debīks. = Our house is big. Stāi ast malnīkan katta. = That is the children's cat. Sunnis ast māise. = The dog is mine. In English, there are two types of genitive pronouns: mine, the predicate nominative, and my, the possessive adjective. The predicate nominatives will be listed below, as they are not decline. The possessive adjectives, however are declined and will be charted in the index. (Postikastens ist postikastenas. :P) Enough possessives. Here's one with of. Zuppin minsāwi ast kāits. = The bowl of soup is hot. Notice that it is not written bowl of soup, but rather of soup bowl. It is in the same order as the possessives. Summary In this lesson you learned genitive nouns and pronouns and a few adjectives. Noun Endings Masculine -s: as, an -is: jas, jan Feminine -a: as, an -e: is, in -i: is, in Neuter -an: as, an Pronouns māise twāise tenesse tenesses tenese nūse jūse tenēisan