ABSTRACT
Peter’s plans (lit. ‘the plans of Peter’) ha’tokhniyot shel Peter
the restaurant’s menu (lit. ‘the menu of the restaurant’) ha’tafrit shel ha’mis-adah
2 Possession can also be expressed in English by the adjectives ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘his’, ‘her’, etc. as well as by the pronouns ‘mine’, ‘yours’, ‘his’, ‘hers’, etc. In Hebrew both these forms are conveyed by with appropriate endings:
In Unit 2, Boris introduced Jan – “my relative karov sheli ”
– sheli is made up of = + (‘i’ being the ending replacing the pronoun ).
