#in multiple languages

[clover-siya]

my cool trait that makes people definitely like me more is i will play kled voice line videos at least once a week

[mtg-player1]

Da sier jeg god natt egt. Bonne nuit. Mi lape.

[doomspaniels]

Have you gotten further in your research on cloning Kovu?

BEDAK: Because Everybody Deserves a Kovu, I'm thinking we apply for grants through the NIH for health/mental health, to start a dedicated cloning lab. Perhaps we could make it an international initiative and apply for grants from all over the world. With equal distribution everywhere, Because EVERYBODY Deserves A Kovu.

Obviously we'll need the most experienced cloning staff as well as the equipment, so this is going to be a resource-heavy project. But just think of the benefit to the world. With a Kovu in your lap kissing your face, your whole mood is lifted at least 11 points (out of 10).

[mostly-vo1d]

Okay, was anyone going to tell me there's a whole website with public domain audio books, or was I supposed to fuck around on the Romeo and Juliet wiki page and find out myself?

[tiyetiye]

Shout Out

To all the sister wives whose first language is NOT English, yet still create such well written stories to share with us on this site. I'm not nearly bilingual (as much as I study) so my hat's off to all of you.

[erasedcitizen2]

american: my name is Sol, it vaguely means sun

me, a swedish person: wtf do u mean “vaguely”??

[mtg-player1]

sleepy. Trøtt. søvnig. Sleepytired. søvn..., je suis trøtt.

[mtg-player1]

Norwegian possessive pronouns

ok this is probably incorrect usage but for the purposes of this post by "subject" I mean subject who owns the "object" not the actual subject of the sentence.

Possessive pronouns in Norwegian depend on the subject and object, specifically the ordinal number person (1/2/3) the count of the subject (singular/plural) and the count of the object (singular/plural) and the gender of the object (masc/fem/not). In most cases the possessive pronoun is the same as the reflexive, except for third person. Where the reflexive does not depend on the subject's gender(masc/fem), but the regular possessive one does.

the difference between reflexive and not is

A looks at A's shoes -> reflexive (she looks at her shoes -> hun ser på skoene sine)

A looks at B's shoes -> not (she looks at his shoes -> hun ser på skoene hans)

(one exception shown below) (I believe that's right but I'm not 100% cause no sources mentioned it but I'm a bookworm & native speaker)

Possessive pronouns are usually after the noun. You can generally write it before I think, but it often sounds odd. You can use it to emphasize who possesses the object though "det er min bok, ikke din!!" -> "it's my book, not yours!!'. But if you write the possessive pronoun before you have to make the noun "undefined" ("boken min" -> "min bok") Norwegian "ubestemt form".

ok so the format is: subject: singular masc object / singular fem object / singular non-gender object / plural object

1. person singular subject: min / mi / mitt / mine

2 person singular subject: din / di / ditt / dine

3 person singular subject reflexive: sin / si / sitt / sine

3 person singular subject masculine: hans

3 person singular subject feminine: hennes (booknorwegian)

3 person singular subject feminine: hennar (newnorwegian)

(it seems "den" og "det" subjects can't own anything) (I'd use "dets" or "dens" though, or the "[noun]s" using "genetiv s" if you want to search it up)

1 person plural subject: vår / vår / vårt / våre

2 person plural subject: dere / dere / deres / deres (booknorwegian)

2 person plural subject: dykkar or dokkar

3 person plural subject: dere / dere / deres / deres (booknorwegian)

3 person plural subject: deira (newnorwegian)

3 person plural subject reflexive: sin / si / sitt / sine

my ref for details: gramatikk.no pronomen (booknorwegian) , gramatikk.no nynorsk, wikipedia nynorsk for determinativ

examples (booknorwegian):

Hatten min er blå -> My hat is blue / Hat my is blue. (hatt=masc defined singular).

Han kjenner til bøkene hennes -> He knows of her books / He (knows to) ((the books) (her)). (hennes is not affected by what is being owned)

Kortet er mitt -> The card is mine. (kort=non-gender defined singular).

Vi lever våre egne liv -> We live our own lives (same word order)

Bøkenes deres ligger i hattene våre -> Their books are in our hats.

Ikke rør teppet mitt -> Don't touch my blanket / Don't touch my carpet.

Teppet deres er blått -> Their carpet is blue. (teppet=defined, non-gender, singular)(blått=non-gender)(deres=2nd or 3rd person, nongender or plural).

Alle vet det er min bok -> Everyone knows it's my book (same word order)

Idk what's up here, but the whole reflexive thing is complex:

Han vet at kortet hannes ligger på bordet -> He knows his card is on the table / He knows that the (card his) (lies on the table). (note two verbs)

Han ser kortet sitt på bordet -> He sees his card on the table / He sees card his on the table. (note one verb)

examples (newnorwegian):

Det er deira fortelling -> It's their story. (plural they).

Boka hennar ligg på bordet -> Her book is lying on the table / Book her lies on the table (Norwegian word order) / Her book is on the table. -> Boka hennes ligger på bordet (Booklanguage)