yê

• IPA^(key): /je/
• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: yé, -yé

yê (third person plural possessive pronoun)

1. their (plural)

yê

1. superseded spelling of ye (“[he/she] is”)

From ê.

• IPA^(key): /jeː/

yê

1. Gives the genitive sense without the object itself for singular masculine nouns.

   Ev qelem yê min e.

   This pen is mine.

   Eva yê kê ye?
   Ev yê bav ê men e.

   Whose is this?
   It's my father's

2. Forms the definitive case for singular masculine nouns and adjectives.
   • 1959, Stig Wikander, Recueil de textes kourmandji, page 32:

     Yê başhedad keniya, got: Lawo, ji xwe ra tiştekî din bixwaze, sendanê min tucar naşkê, got "Bila, qe, ez vi şerti bi te ra bikim."

     The head-blacksmith laughed and said: Boy, ask for thyself something else, my anvil never breaks, he said "So be it, whatever, I make this bet with thee."

If the proceding noun is oblique, it gives Sense 1; if it is not, it gives Sense 2.

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