Numbers 0–10, family, “my / your”

To say “my”, add ī to the end of the noun: ʾumm becomes ʾummī, “my mother”, and ʾukht becomes ʾukhtī, “my sister”. To say “your”, add uk: ʾummuk, ʾukhtuk. A man and a woman hear the same -uk in this course; the full forms are -uka and -uki. You know this pattern from ism: ismī and ismuk. Two words change a little. ʾAb and ʾakh become ʾabī and ʾakhī for “my”, but ʾabūk and ʾakhūk for “your”, with a long ū (the form used at the start of a sentence).