Sorry to bother you people with pronoun questions again, but... I just want to make sure I have this correct. What is weird are the plural possesives/reflexive posessives. Here is the list for meus and noster:
N. meus
G. mei
D. meo
A. meum
Ab. meo
mei
meorum
meis
meos
meis
N. noster
G. nostri
D. nostro
A. nostrum
Ab. nostro
nostri
nostrorum
nostris
nostros
nostris
Nostrorum looks very odd. Is that right?? How do you translate the genitive possesive? of my? The double posessive idea can't sink into my head. In english, it looks like this in my mind: "my my" things.
Do I have this right?
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keep in mind that the genitive is not simply possessive.... it can mean any number of things, and can usually be translated with "of..." but that little "of" is open to a lot of interpretation and you end up with many possible meanings for it (which is generally determined by context). therefore it's not always correct to translate it as "my", and so you don't actually have a "double possessive".
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