 The condition that indirectly possessed nouns are represented by a possessum noun also holds for this method of indicating possession, and in such cases, "the classifier precedes the possessor noun phrase as in "hape lagua" 'possession of theirs'", demonstrated in example (12) below.Example (12) also demonstrates the application of this method for multiple (dual, in this case) possessors (Hafford, 1999)