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  • Lesson 22: Possessives

    Lesson 22: Possessives

    In Marshallese there are words for ‘my,’ ‘your,’ ‘his,’ ‘her,’ etc. These are called ‘possessives.’ Marshallese makes no distinction between ‘my’ vs. ‘mine,’ ‘your’ vs. ‘yours’ etc. It has the same word for both.

  • Lesson 15: Wrapping up pronouns and tenses

    Lesson 15: Wrapping up pronouns and tenses

    In the last ten lessons you have learned the present, past, and future tenses and three sets of pronouns. This section reviews this material.

  • Lesson 13: The emphatic pronouns

    Lesson 13: The emphatic pronouns

    Marshallese has yet a third set of pronouns, which does not have a close equivalent in English. These are called the ‘emphatic’ pronouns. The good news is that most of them are identical to the object pronouns, so there are only a few new ones to memorize.

  • Lesson 12: Object pronouns

    Lesson 12: Object pronouns

    In English, we use different pronouns before verbs than after verbs.  For instance, you say ‘I like Alfred’ but you don’t say ‘Alfred likes I.’  Instead you say ‘Alfred likes me.’  The first kind of pronoun (‘I,’ ‘you,’ ‘he,’ ‘she,’ etc.) is called a ‘subject’ pronoun and the second kind (‘me,’ ‘you,’ ‘him,’ ‘her,’ etc.)…