Syntax

Syntactic actants

Actant 1: whose thigh it is
(a) Genitive
(b) Possessive
Лїжки дљвочки бІли длќнные и худІе. The little girl's thighs were long and thin.
Брєки плћтно облегђли егћ лїжки. The pants fit snugly around his thighs.
NB When the word лїжка functions as a subject and does not have a descriptive modifier, the construction лїжка у + Genitive is often preferred to (a) and (b), above:
Лїжки у дљвочки бІли длќнные и худІе. The little girl's thighs were long and thin.

Restrictive modifiers

(a) adjectival modifier
лљвая/прђвая лїжка the left/right thigh
Лљвая лїжка у неё посинљла от удђра. She had an enormous bruise on her left thigh.