Biweekly Post #5

[Azin Bahari]

The 9^th and 8^th weeks of my language learning consisted of learning about possessive conjugation, i.e. expressing how someone or something is possessed, if it is mine, his/hers/theirs, his/hers/theirs formal, theirs plural, or ours. This is accomplished by adding a suffix to the end of the word, which delineates who that thing or person belongs to. This suffix must, of course, follow vowel harmony based on the last vowel in the word. This was, for some reason, very hard to catch onto for me! I kept messing it up with all the other suffix conjugations we had learn. We also learned how to say ‘to’ (a/e suffix) (which is something we somewhat learned before, but not explicitly) and ‘from’ (dan/den/tan/ten). These are, of course, picked based on vowel harmony from the last vowel in the word, and in the case of ‘from’ based on the last consonant of the word as well.