Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

17 Possessives and constructsa Possessive ‘of’: ‘Yoram’s brother’PossessivesandconstructsPossessive ‘of’ (or ’s) is commonly : the son of the President(the President’s son) Mike’s cell-phoneNotice that the word order is as with English ‘of’: the thing possessedcomes first. denotes ‘whose?’. For example:? Whose is the yarmulka over there?(Of whom is the yarmulka over there?)? Whose son is marrying the rabbi’s daughter?(The son of whom is marrying the rabbi’s daughter?)b Possessive ‘my, your’, etc.:‘My’ is commonly : ‘my brother’ my dog (lit. ‘the dog of me’) is made up of ‘of’ + an ending representing the pronounin other words, ‘of me’. ‘I’:1 These possessives follow the noun, just like ‘of thePresident’ in 17(a).2 ‘the’ is added to the first noun, because ‘my dog’ means ‘the dog ofmine’.29