маань

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Mongolian

MongolianCyrillic
ᠮᠠᠨᠢ
(mani)
маань
(maanʹ)

Etymology

From манай (manaj, our, first-person plural possessive determiner).

Compare Buryat -мнай (-mnaj), -най (-naj) and also Kalmyk -мдн (-mdn).

Pronunciation

Particle

маань (maanʹ)

  1. Forming the first-person plural possession
    Дорж багштай мааньDorž bagštaj maanʹwith our teacher Dorj

Usage notes

As a possessive particle, маань is always placed after case suffixes, particles (дахь², лугаа², руу⁴, шиг), and postpositions.

Structurally unlike in Buryat or Turkic, additional modification of маань with determiner манай is invalid. Therefore, a first-person plural possession in Mongolian may only be formed as манай or маань.