Possessions - Drink

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Yesterday (nanoa), we covered possessives when dealing with food. Today (nikua) we will look at possessives and drink:

Oqo na mequ wai.
This is my water.

Oqo na memu wai.
This is your water.

Oqo na mena wai.
This is his water.

When referring to drink, we use "me". To identify a singular owner, we use one of the following:

mequ	mine
memu	yours
mena	his, hers, or its

Possessions - Food

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Yesterday (nanoa), we covered possessives when dealing with things. Today (nikua) we will look at possessives and food:

Oqo na kequ kakana.
This is my food.

Oqo na kemu kakana.
This is your food.

Oqo na kena kakana.
This is his food.

When referring to food, we use "ke". To identify a singular owner, we use one of the following:

kequ	mine
kemu	yours
kena	his, hers, or its

Possessions - Things

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In the Fijian language there are three broad categories of possession. They are:

1. Things
2. Food
3. Drink

Today, we'll be looking at the first category for things. different suffixes are used depending upon the number of owners. For example:

Oqo na noqu vale.
This is my house.

Oqo na nomu vale.
This is your house.

Oqo na nona vale.
This is her house.

There are three important notes here:

1. When referring to things, we use "no".
2. The owner is identified by what is attached after "no":
3. There is no gender inferred by possessives. So nona may be used for his, her, or its.

To identify a singular owner, we use one of the following:

noqu	mine
nomu	yours
nona	his, hers, or its