Translation
one's own
Examples
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He is looking at his own hand.
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She is talking about her own language.
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Everyone has their own time.
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He saw the other man's hand, not his own.
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She went to her own house.
is the possessive that points back at the subject of its own clause, so is his own hand while is somebody else's. It exists only in the third person, because and are already unambiguous. Like every possessive it agrees with the thing possessed, not the owner: , . It can never appear in the subject, since a subject cannot refer back to itself.
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