OOC: Cruising for Feminine Pronouns

[sythyry]

For odd reasons, I'd like to get the word for "her" in a number of languages. That's "her" in the sense of "OMG, it's her!" -- the objective pronoun in English, accusative in some other languages, etc. If there's an emphatic form, I'd like that too.

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Thanks very much!

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[elorie.livejournal.com]

Cherokee doesn't quite work that way, at least not so as I could provide an easy translation with my limited knowledge.

So very much depends on what kind of "her" you are speaking of. For one thing, what pronouns there are, are gender-neutral. There are active and passive nouns in Cherokee, and an active noun is a trait such as being a girl. The language doesn't really have adjectives. It also doesn't have a "to be" verb; all verbs are active/descriptive. Where you'd say "is" in English, you just don't use a verb.

"Nasgi ageyv" might work. (Pronounced nahs-gee ah-geh-yun where you sort of swallow the last syllable.) "That girl/woman," more or less (young girl is a different word, a-ta). Also translatable as "That is a girl."

The kind of accusatory quality of "OMG her!" is not expressible in the Cherokee I know, but I'm not sure they'd do that anyway. It's a very polite language. There's a lot of word-play and the fact that you'd say "That girl" with no further comment would sort of imply "OMG her!"