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Possessive articles

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Das ist mein Buch. With possessive articles you express ownership and belonging — important for talking about family, things, and relationships. Here in the nominative as an introduction.

  • Possessive determiners, nominative

Grammar → Possessive articles

Explanation

With possessive articles you say who something belongs to (my, your, his …). Each person has a possessive article: ich → mein, du → dein, er → sein, sie → ihr, wir → unser, ihr → euer, sie/Sie → ihr/Ihr.

In the nominative, the ending depends on the noun:

  1. der- and das-words: no ending — mein Vater, mein Kind.
  2. die-words and plural: ending -e — meine Mutter, meine Eltern.
PersonArticleder/das + ∅die/plural + -e
ichmeinmein Vatermeine Mutter
dudeindein Hunddeine Katze
er / esseinsein Bruderseine Schwester
sieihrihr Sohnihre Tochter
wirunserunser Hausunsere Kinder
ihreuereuer Garteneure Eltern

Find words

mein or meine?

Which possessive article fits?

Put sentences in order

Fill in the blanks

Grammar in context

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