Yiddish has two options to indicate possession. The most common form is "ikh hob", literally "I have", which requires a direct object (accusative). However, there is also a form which is more similar to old Hebrew: "bay mir iz do", literally "By me is there", followed by the subject (nominative). According to Zuckermann, the latter form, available in the feature pool together with the erstwhile non-habere Hebrew structure "yésh l-i" + Subject (there is for me, followed by the nominative), did not prevail because "ikh hob" is more productive in Yiddish and other European habere languages that contributed to the emergence of "Israeli".