Thursday, March 22, 2018

Possessive adjectives



• To tell that something belongs to someone you can say “de.”   
                     (This is equivalent to the –‘s and – s’)

Ejemplo:  Los hámsters son de Luke. (They are Luke’s hamsters.)


• You can also use possessive adjectives to show ownership or show relationships.

Ejemplo:  Son sus hámsters. (They are his hamsters.)

Possessive Adjectives
mi, mis
nuestro, nuestra, nuestros, nuestras
tu, tus
vuesto, vuestra, vuestros, vuestras
su, sus
su,sus

• These adjectives agree in number with the nouns that follow them.
• Only nuestro and vuestro have different masculine and feminine  
  endings.

Ejemplos: 

       mi gato                    my cat     nuestro pez
       tu loro       your parrot      our fish

• Su and Sus means many things: his, her, its, your, or their
• Use de + noun/ pronoun to be more specific about who it belongs to