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Possessive pronouns



We’ve been using a few possessive adjectives already (mein, dein), but now it’s time for you to learn all of
them. They’re really fairly simple, there are just two questions you need to ask yourself before deciding on
which possessive adjective will be correct:

This is my pen



1) Who ‘owns’ the object you’re talking about? Is it mine, yours, his, hers? Answering who owns the object will
tell you what base form possessive to use (mein, dein, sein, ihr, etc).



2) What gender, number, and case is the object (NOT the owner)? This will determine the endings that need to
be added on to the base form. For example, in the sentence “His mother is young” -- mother is feminine
singular and is in the nominative case, so the ending is just -e: Seine Mutter ist jung.




The endings for the possessive adjectives are exactly the same as the endings for ein and kein, so you should
already be familiar with the basic idea here:

Ein ein ein einen ein-e ein eine

OWNER BASE FORM MASC NOM MASC ACC FEM NEUT PLUR



ich mein (mine) mein meinen meine

du (sg) dein (your) dein deinen deine

er sein (his) sein seinen seine

sie (sg) ihr (her) ihr ihren ihre

es sein ( his) sein seinen seine

wir unser (our) unser unseren unsere

ihr euer (your) euer eueren eure

sie (pl) ihr (your) ihr ihren ihre

Sie (form) Ihr (your) ihr ihren ihre

, There are three common problems students sometimes have when learning these forms. Please note:



1) “euer” drops its middle -e- when any endings are added (eure, not euere). This is just a quirk of German
spelling and pronunciation.



2) “unser” has an -er as part of the base form. Thus that -er will always be present, PLUS any case endings that
occur after it (unseren, unsere).



3) The owner of the object only determines what word to use, NOT what endings to use. For example, “his
mother” -- it doesn’t matter that HE is masculine (that only shows that you need to use sein). Since mother is
feminine, you need to add an -e to the base form of sein (seine Mutter).



Becoming, changing, sein - nominative

Now let’s try some fill-in-the-blank sentences.



1. Hast du ________meine____________ (my) Telefonnummer (f)?

2. Laura liest ________ihr____________ (her) Buch(n).

3. Kinder, wo ist _____ihr_______________ (your, pl) Fernseher(m)?

4. Das sind _____unsere_______________ (our) Großeltern(pl).

5. _______seine_____________ (his) Freunde (pl) heißen Karl und Josef.

6. Ich sehe _________dein___________ (your, sg) Buch(n).

7. Konstanze besucht morgen _________ihre___________ (her) Tante(f).

8. Die Kinder lieben _______ihren_____________ (their) Opa Frank(m).

9. Sehen Sie ____unseren________________ (our) Vater(m)?

10. Herr Obermann, _____ihre_______________ (Your, formal) Studenten (pl) lernen alles!

11. Trinkst du jetzt __meinen__________________ (my) Wein(m)?

12. Die Kinder essen _____ihre_______________ (their) Bananen(pl).

13. Das ist ______dein______________ (your, sg) Uhr(n) , nicht wahr? Wahr - truth

14. Ich sehe , _nicht_____ihre______________ (your, pl) Schwester(f).

15. Das Buch ist alt, und ________seinen____________ (its) Titel (m) ist unlesbar.- lessen – to read

16. Florian hört _______seinen_____________ (his) Professor(m) nicht.

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