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According to their linking rules, Moksha possessive case endings can be
classified into the categories below. These suffixes are added to the stem (that
is most often the dictionary base form) under identical conditions: a) after vo-
wels, the variant containing a suffix-initial consonant is used, b) consonants
are always (or more often) followed by the variant containing a suffix-initial
vowel, c) after consonant-clusters, it is usually the variant with the suffix-
initial vowel that is used.
The nominative
a) a suffix-initial vowel is always present in stems ending in consonant:
1st person singular (one possession): -źä, -äźä [-зе, -озе, -езе]
3rd person singular (one possession): -c, -ä c [-ц, -оц, -ец]
3rd person singular (multiple possessions): -nzä, -änzä [-нза, -онза, -енза]
1st person plural (one/multiple possessions): -ńkä, -äńkä [-нькe, -онькe,
-енькe]
2nd person plural (one/multiple possessions): -ńťä, -äńťä [-нте, -онте,
-енте]
b) a suffix-initial vowel is sometimes present in stems ending in consonants
(mainly preceding a consonant-cluster):
1st person singular (multiple possessions): -ńä, -ä ńä [-оне, -ене]
2nd person singular (one possession): -ćä, -äćä [-це, -оце, -еце]
3rd person plural (one/multiple possessions): -snä, -cnä, -äsnä [-сна, -осна,
-есна]
c) 2nd person singular (multiple possessions): -ťńä, -ťńä [-тне, -тьня] =
definite declension plural nominative
The genitive: a) Nominative + -ń, except for b) 3rd person singular genitive
(one possession): -n-c (a suffix-initial vowel is always present in stems ending
in consonant). Here – unlike in all the other persons – the genitive suffix
precedes the possessive suffix.
The dative: a) Genitive ń + -ďi, except for b) Px3Sg -nc-ti, Px3Pl -snä-n-di
(that is hard -ti, and -di) and for c) short forms, where the -ťi suffix is added
directly after the possessive suffixes: -źťi (Px1Sg), ć-ťi (Px2Sg).
The possessive suffixed forms in the dependent cases do not differ from the
corresponding Erzya forms. Singular Moksha suffixes take the same possessive
suffixes as Erzya ones; that is: vaľmä ’window’ : (Iness) vaľma-s ä-n, -t, -nzä,
-nk , -nt, -sk ’in my window, in my windows; in your window, in your
windows’ etc.
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