Any explanation / meaning / backstory is more than welcome, or you can just drop it for everyone to try and resolve.
Right, in English you have to rephrase the sentence because the pronoun you need doesn’t exist. There’s just a pronoun for “male person” not one for “subject” or “object” of the sentence.
That’s why I replied with it to a “what word would you make up?” Question, because that’s what I would bring into English
Nice. Now what do you do in case of:
Larry sold a lot of his stuff. … Tom gave Steve his phone.
Is there another “his” for that?
Um in Danglish:
Larry sold a lot of his(hans) stuff. Tom gave Steve his (sin if it’s Tom’s and hans if it’s Steve’s) stuff.
Just just for the current sentence(s). Like a new subject would “reset” it
In the example, I was implying a scenario in which Larry sold Larry’s stuff, which would have included Larry’s phone.
Tom then gives Larry’s phone to Steve.I used ‘stuff’ in the first sentence to prevent revealing ‘phone’ beforehand, in which case it could have become, “Tom gave Steve the phone.”.
Sounds like you could invent a language with fancy rules :p