possessive adjective

Words like the English my and your have traditionally been called possessive adjectives.

This is not to be confused with possessive adjectives.

For emphasis, however, possessive adjectives are sometimes placed after a noun.

The possessive adjective denotes, obviously, possession of someone or something.

In most of the languages, the possessive adjectives trigger various mutations.

Similar to English, the possessive adjective does not vary with the genre or number of what is possessed.

Note that only Slavic names (possessive adjectives) are changed this way.

Possessive adjectives match the noun of the possessed in case, gender, and number.

In other situations, as with indefinite articles, possessive adjectives or without article, the strong form is used.

So depending on what is being modified, the possessive adjectives are:

It is also possible to use a possessive adjective, which agrees with the head in number, gender and case:

Latin also had possessive adjectives of this sort.

Note here that the genre of the noun changed, but the possessive adjective stayed the same (an).

The first person pronouns predominate, as well as possessive adjectives.

They are also known as possessive adjectives.

Possessive adjectives, like articles, must agree with the gender and number of the noun they modify.

Its: a possessive adjective and pronoun of the personal pronoun it.

Notice one fact: Finnish has no possessive adjectives.

Possessive adjectives of the masculine (nominative case) or neuter gender.

The table below gives forms of the personal pronouns in the different cases, as well as the possessive adjectives.

The same applies to yours, theirs and ours because these are also possessive adjectives of personal pronouns.

Possessive adjectives are often used in the names of streets, squares, buildings, etc.:

In most cases the possessive adjective is used with an article, usually the definite article:

With a gerund, the agent may be expressed using a possessive adjective: my arriving; John's entering the competition.

Unlike English, Russian uses the same word for a possessive adjective and the corresponding pronoun.