>>>Change "A woman without her man is helpless" to "A woman, without her man is helpless"
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>>Ah, but that's using the two meanings of "her" - once as a possesive pronoun, once as a personal pronoun. How about this (translation - the order of words is completely Ok in Serbian:)
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>AH, now I see. Although a colon, to introduce the subject of the following phrase, would have been more appropriate, I'd say.
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>"A woman: without her man is helpless"

"A woman: without her, man is helpless"