| 16.2 All possessive pronouns - an overview |
Having presented all of the possessive pronouns separately,
we now here present them all together. Here you can compare
the endings of each declension (and see that within one
gender the endings are just the same)
| gender of the possessed object |
| masculine | ||||||||
| mein- | dein- | sein- | ihr- | unser- | eur- | ihr- | ||
| Singular | Nominative | - | - | - | - | -* | euer* | - |
| Genitive | -es | -es | -es | -es | -es | -es | -es | |
| Dative | -em | -em | -em | -em | -em | -em | -em | |
| Accusative | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | |
| Plural | Nominative | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e |
| Genitive | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | |
| Dative | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | |
| Accusative | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | |
| feminine | ||||||||
| mein- | dein- | sein- | ihr- | unser- | eur- | ihr- | Singular | Nominative | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e* | -e* | -e |
| Genitive | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | |
| Dative | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | |
| Accusative | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | |
| Plural | Nominative | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e |
| Genitive | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | |
| Dative | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | |
| Accusative | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | |
| neutral | ||||||||
| mein- | dein- | sein- | ihr- | unser- | eur- | ihr- | ||
| Singular | Nominative | - | - | - | - | -* | euer* | - |
| Genitive | -es | -es | -es | -es | -es | -es | -es | |
| Dative | -em | -em | -em | -em | -em | -em | -em | |
| Accusative | - | - | - | - | - | euer | - | |
| Plural | Nominative | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e |
| Genitive | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | -er | |
| Dative | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | -en | |
| Accusative | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | -e | |
* unserer or unser
(if unser has an ending the 'e' can be omitted, both unsere and unsre is correct)
* euer => eurer; here happened the same, even though the "older" version is not used anymore
| examples | |
| owner: 1st
person singular possessed object : feminine singular Genitive |
Die
Türme meiner Stadt sind groß. The towers of my town are big. |
| owner: 2nd person singular possessed object : masculine plural Dative |
Ich leihe eurem Nachbarn
Geld. I lend money to your neighbor. |
| owner: 1st person plural possessed object : neutral plural Accusative |
Ihr seht unsere Autos. You see our cars. |
| owner: 2nd person singular possessed object : feminine singular Dative |
Wir schenken deiner
Tochter ein Buch. We give a book to your daughter. |
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