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• 1 2018-07-20T18:38:51-07:00 5 Possessive Pronouns 5 plain 779872 2018-07-23T12:59:22-07:00 Every language has ways of indicating ideas of possession. In English we use possessive words ‘my,’ ‘your,’ ‘his,’ ‘her,’ ‘its,’ and ‘their.’ We also have possessive words ‘mine,’ ‘yours,’ ‘hers,’ and ‘theirs.’
  
  In Klallam, possession translated ‘my,’ ‘your,’ ‘his,’ and so on is indicated by adding something to the beginning (prefix) or end (suffix) of the word for the thing possessed.
  
  To express the idea of English ‘mine,’ ‘yours,’ and so on in Klallam you use a special word, skʷáʔ, with the possessive prefixes and suffixes.
  
  This special word skʷáʔ is also used for emphatic possession, which in English is expressed with extra stress on the possessive word, as in, ‘It’s my money!’