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ROUMANIAN GRAMMAR.

Feminine.

Eŭ însa-mĭ, noĭ înṣi-ne,
tu însa-ṭĭ, voĭ înṣi-vĕ,
ea însa-ṣĭ, ele înṣi-le.

Note.—For the third person, instead of the abbreviated form of luĭ or eĭ, we use another personal pronoun in the form ĭ for ie. This personal pronoun is made use of in genitive, dative, and accusative only:

Gen. al sĕŭ, ‘his;’dat. ie, ‘to him;’pe sine, ‘him.’

Possessive Pronouns.

The possessive pronouns are as follows:—

meŭ, ‘mine.’ nostru, ‘our.’
tĕŭ, ‘thine.’ vostru, ‘your.’
sĕŭ or luĭ, eĭ, ‘his.’ lor or sĕĭ, ‘their.’

They are treated as adjectives, agreeing in gender and number with the object of which they indicate the possession:

calul meŭ, ‘my horse;’ caiĭ meĭ, ‘my horses.’
cassu mea, ‘my house;’ cassele mele, ‘my houses.’

When they precede the noun (which they can do only in nominative and accusative), the article al for masculine, and a for feminine, and aĭ, ale for plural, are placed before them:

al meŭ căne, ‘my dog;’ aĭ meĭ că.
a mea cassă, ‘my house;’ a or ale mele casse.