маань

Inherited from postposed Classical Mongolian ᠮᠠᠨᠤ (manu, “our”) and Middle Mongol ᠮᠠᠨᠤ (manu, “our”). Doublet of preposed манай (manaj, “our”).

Compare Khamnigan Mongol -мана (-mana); Buryat postvocalic -мнай (-mnaj), postconsonantal -най (-naj).

• IPA^(key): /mæːn/
• Hyphenation: маань

маань • (maanʹ)

1. Marks the first-person plural possession.

   Дорж багштай маань ― Dorž bagštaj maanʹ ― with our teacher Dorj

• As a possessive particle, минь (minʹ) is always placed after case endings and postpositions.
• Structurally unlike in Buryat or Turkic, additional modification of [substantive] маань with determiner манай is invalid. Therefore, a first-person plural possession in Mongolian may only be formed as манай [substantive] or [substantive] маань.