Possessive Adjectives Example
Spanish Classes / / July 04, 2021
The possessive adjectives are the ones modify the noun by adding an idea of belonging or possession.
The possessives correspond to the three grammatical persons. In both genres and numbers. The possessive adjectives they coincide in number and gender with the name of the thing owned and not with the owner or possessor. When the adjectives mine, mine; yours, yours, yours his and its plurals are prepended to the name suffer apocope, which means that they lose one or more letters of the ending.
Those of the 1st person lose the vowels a, o and those of the 2nd and third. The syllables I, now: my husband, your children, his fortune, if they put it postponed it would be said: my husband, your children his fortune. The words mine, yours, his. When without preceded by the articles the or the are pronouns and not adjectives. My cat is prettier than yours.
List of possessive adjectives of a single possessor:
First person:
my, my, my, my
Second person:
you, his, yours, your, his, yours, his
Third person:
his, his,
List of possessive adjectives of various possessors:
First person:
our, our, our, our
Second person:
his, yours, yours, his, yours, yours
Third person:
his, his
Only the word ours acquires the gender of the noun it modifies, and in the plurals ours and ours, just as in the case of yours, yours, your yours.
Another type of possessive adjective is the accented possessive. It is formed like the possessive pronoun but, unlike this, it loses the article when it becomes an adjective. Furthermore, it also differs from possessive adjectives simple, which are placed before the name they modify; This accented possessive adjective is placed after the noun it modifies.
30 examples of sentences with possessive adjectives:
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Me pants and me shirt
- A pants Own and a shirt mine they are wet.
- One Own and one mine.
- These are my steaks and these are your toasts.
- These steaks are mine and these toasts are mine.
- On me work pay more than what you earn in you store.
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You son broke it and you daughter hit it.
- A son of yours broke it and a daughter of yours hit it.
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Me brother sold it and me Mom bought it again.
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You dog bit him and me Mom scolded me.
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His patient calls him and its nurse looks for him.
- A patient yours calls him and a nurse hers she looks for it.
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Your books and your pens.
- The books are yours and the feathers are yours.
- Boss, i found their cigars
- Boss, I found these cigars his.
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Their cigars appeared here.
- Doña Mala, those are their combs.
- Doña Mala, those combs are his.
- Children say that its dog crashed.
- The children say that a dog yours he had an accident
- It came out its dog, it's down the street.
- Apparently its car is for sale.
- Apparently a car yours on sale.
- I put me car for sale
- It is on sale me car
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You project is to sell you car.
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Their parents say that some friends his they moved.
- Some of their friends moved
- Your friends moved house.
Other types of adjectives:
- Adjectives
- Adjectives
- Demonstrative adjectives
- Explanatory adjectives
- Gentile adjectives
- Undefined adjectives
- Numeral adjectives
- Partitive adjectives
- Pronominal adjectives
- Substantiated adjectives