| 10.1 Possessive pronouns |
| Possessive pronouns indicate who owns what |
| That is my
house. This is your steak. That is his wife. This is her husband. That is our car. These are your friends. Those are their flowers. |
Possessive pronouns have to be in accordance in gender
and number with the object. The gender and the number
of the subject, which is talked about does not have any influence
on the possessive pronoun.
Actually you'll make it correctly when not thinking about it. However, we can have a look at the logic behind it.
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Veo vuestra
casa. = I see your
house. |
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Veo vuestras casas. = I see your houses. |
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Doy una nueva fachada a vuestras casas. = I give your houses a new facade. |
In English you can differentiate between a female owner
and a male owner of something when the phrase is in
the third person singular. Spanish doesn't make
this difference:
| He
looks at his wife. = Ve a su mujer. She looks at her husband. = Ve a su hombre. |
The possessive
pronouns that we had a look at are in adjectival mode.
Adjectival is a possessive pronoun when it is put before
the noun. It does what adjectives usually do - they
describe the noun to that it is referred.
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Veo tu casa. = I see your house. |
Sometimes the possessive pronouns substitute a noun. In English the substantival possessive pronouns are
my => mine
your => yours
his, her => his, hers
our => ours
your => yours
their => theirs
| Possessive pronouns in substitution of a noun |
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Veo
la tuya, pero no la mía.= I
see yours but not mine. |
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La nuestra es linda, pero la vuestra es fea. = Ours is beautiful but theirs is ugly. |
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