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Declensions of Pronouns – 5

Posted by on January 24, 2015

In most languages the locatives are expressed through prepositions. Such is certainly the case in European languages and even Latin which has declensions but has no special cases in her declensions to denote location. In Konkani there are two locative cases: locative on and locative in. All the other types of locations, such as under, below, beside, etc.,  are expressed through postpositions.

Actually, although Konkani nouns have both locative ONs and locative INs, such is not the case with prepositions. Prepositions have locative ONs for all three persons and both numbers, but locative IN exists only for inanimate objects in the third person, and it is common to both singular and plural. That locative IN is tantun

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 which means in it or in them. To denote the locative IN in all other cases, the postposition bhitôr is used after the flex stem. For example: mhojê bhitôr 
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= in me or within me. But if you want to say “in that”  or “in  those”, you would say, “tantun“. The Marathi equivalent of tantun is त्य़ात.

In contrast, all pronouns have locative ONs. For example, in “Mhojêr ghalum naka

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(which means “Don’t blame it on me”), mhojêr is the locative ON. Here are the locative ONs of all the pronouns:

Singular Plural
 1st Person  Mhojêr
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 on me  Amchêr
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 on us
 2nd Person  Tujêr
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on thee  Tumchêr
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on you
 3rd Person masc.  Tachêr
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on him  Tanchêr
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on them
 3rd Person fem.  Tichêr
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on her
 3rd Person neut.  Tachêr
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 on it/her

 
Example:
Soglloch bhar tujêr poddlo 

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= (Literally) All the load fell on you (sing)
 

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