A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.s2.55
A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.s2.55
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v2.c12.s2.55
आप is declined with the usual case-affixes का, की, etc., in Hindi, when used as an honorific substitute for the pronoun of the second person, so also in P. and the other languages; but it has a special genitive used adjectively and with a possessive sense, meaning "my, thy, his own," according to the person in which it is used. This therefore becomes almost a separate pronoun, and has the following forms: