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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...Boil meinent rtopf, which would also be correct. This use of the dative of a personal pronoun and the definite article, in place of a possessive adjective, the usual form of expression in English, is extremely common in German, when parts of the body or of the dress are spoken of. i. The perfect participles of bfirfen, mogen, and lijnnen are geburft, gentoajt, gefonttt. As to the forms of the perfect, the remarks of 149 are applicable to these verbs: id) IjaDC gCDUrft, gemOOjt, etc.; but idj Ijulie (Iemen) biirfen, fonnen, etc. 156. For the inflection and use of the possessive adjectives employed substantively, see 61 and 62. In place of the simple possessives, we may have ber, bte, taS ntettttge, etv., as given on the next page. b e r, b i e, b a 3 metnigr, or, meincr, meine, meineg, mine. beinige, " beiner, beine, beineg, thine. feinige, " feiner, feine, feineg, his, its. tfjrige, "ifjrer, tfjre, ifjreg, hers. unfrige, " unferer, unfere, unfere3, ours. euiigt, "euercr, euere, euereg, yours. Stige, " 3fjrer, $xc, %'t)xrt, yours. ifjrigt, "if)rcr, ifyxt, ifjrcg, theirs. 157. ainfgabe. I. 1. I must not (am not allowed to) put1 my new hat on, and he must not put his on. 2. 'Why have you not put yours on? 3. I have not been allowed 2 to put it on, because it is so windy. 4. You have not put8 your new coat on; why not? 5. I did not like to--because I did not like to put it on.4 6. We cannot put8 our new shoes on; they have6 not come yet. 7. Why have not your sisters put theirs on? 8. Because they have not been able to; the shoes are much too small. 9. My new hat is so small that I shall not be able to put it on6 my head. 10. My coat fits me so badly that I have not been able to put it on. 11. She takes off7 her shoes, because ...
