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Possessive
compounds
§895MEANING OF COMPOUNDSCompound nouns (substantives and adjectives) are divided, according to their meaning, into three main classes: determinative, possessive, and prepositional-phrase, compounds. a. Th…
§898MEANING OF COMPOUNDSPossessive Compounds.—In possessive compounds the first part defines the second as in determinatives; but the whole compound is an adjective expressing a quality, with the idea of …
Pronouns
declension
§330PRONOUNSPossessive Pronouns.—Possessive pronouns, formed from the stems of the personal pronouns, are declined like ἀγαθός, ἄξιος (287). ἐμός ἐμή ἐμόν my, my own; mine ἡμέτερος -ᾱ -ον our,…
place, taken by article
§1121THE PARTICULAR ARTICLEThe article often takes the place of an unemphatic possessive pronoun when there is no doubt as to the possessor. Κῦρος καταπηδήσᾱς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἅρματος τὸν θώρᾱκα ἐνέδῡ Cyrus leaped do…
with and without article
§1182PECULIARITIES OF POSITION WITH THE ARTICLEPossessive pronouns take the article only when a definite person or thing is meant, and stand between article and noun: τὸ ἐμὸν βιβλίον my book, τὰ ἡμέτερα βιβλία our books. a. But…
§1183PECULIARITIES OF POSITION WITH THE ARTICLEThe article is not used with possessive pronouns or the genitive of personal and reflexive pronouns (cp. 1184, 1185): a. When no particular object is meant: ἐμὸν βιβλίον or βιβλίον…
§1196 aTHE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNSThe possessive pronouns (330) of the first and second persons are the equivalents of the possessive genitive of the personal pronouns: ἐμός = μου, σός = σου, ἡμέτερος = ἡμῶν, ῡ̔μέτ…
position of article with
§1163Attributive Position of the ArticleThe attributive position is employed with the possessive pronouns and the possessive genitives of the reflexive and demonstrative pronouns (1184), αὐτο<*> meaning same (1173), and …
§1182PECULIARITIES OF POSITION WITH THE ARTICLEPossessive pronouns take the article only when a definite person or thing is meant, and stand between article and noun: τὸ ἐμὸν βιβλίον my book, τὰ ἡμέτερα βιβλία our books. a. But…
§1196 aTHE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNSThe possessive pronouns (330) of the first and second persons are the equivalents of the possessive genitive of the personal pronouns: ἐμός = μου, σός = σου, ἡμέτερος = ἡμῶν, ῡ̔μέτ…
uses
§§1196–1203THE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNSThe possessive pronouns (330) of the first and second persons are the equivalents of the possessive genitive of the personal pronouns: ἐμός = μου, σός = σου, ἡμέτερος = ἡμῶν, ῡ̔μέτ…
with force of objective genitive of personal pronoun
§1197THE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNSA possessive pronoun may have the force of an objective genitive (cp. 1331) of the personal pronoun: φιλίᾳ τῇ ἐμῇ out of friendship for me X. C. 3.1.28. (φιλίᾱ ἡ ἐμή usually means …
of first and second persons, reflexive and non-reflexive
§§1198–1200THE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNSThe possessive pronouns of the first and second persons are sometimes reflexive (when the subject of the sentence and the possessor are the same person), sometimes not reflexive.