Syntax

Syntactic actants

Role 1: whose collarbone it is
(a) Genitive
(b) Possessive
Ключќцы больнћго бІли ћстрые, выступђющие вперёд. The patient's collarbone was sharp and jutting.
Посмотрќ на егћ ключќцы — кђк из концлђгеря. Look at his collarbone! He looks like he just got out of a concentration camp.
NB When the word ключќца functions as a subject and does not have a descriptive modifier, the construction ключќца у + Genitive is often preferred to (a) and (b), above:
Ключќцы у больнћго бІли ћстрые, выступђющие вперёд. The patient's collarbone was sharp and jutting.

Restrictive modifiers

(a) adjectival modifier
лљвая/прђвая ключќца the left/right clavicle
От дђвнего перелћма лљвая ключќца у менї всегдђ болљла к перемљне погћды. My collarbone (My left clavicle) always hurt when the weather changed because of an old fracture.
больнђя ключќца the bad clavicle, the part of the collarbone that was injured