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En casa con la familia Gramática 1 Possessive adjectives
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En casa con la familia Gramática 1
Possessive adjectives
En casa con la familia Gramática 1
Showing Possession• In Spanish there are NO apostrophes.
• You cannot say, for example,
Jorge’s dog, (using an apostrophe)
En casa con la familia Gramática 1
Showing Posession
• You must say, “The dog of Jorge,” only in Spanish.
• Like this: El perro de Jorge.
En casa con la familia Gramática 1
De + noun
• This concept of showing possession is using “de + noun.”
For example: Tengo el cuaderno de Felipe.
En casa con la familia Gramática 1
Showing possession w/adjectives…
• We can use adjectives to show possession just as we do in English.
• Possessive adjectives in English: – my, your, his, her, our and their.
• In Spanish the possessive adjectives must match the noun in number & gender.
• Unlike English, Spanish has two forms of possessive adjectives:– a short form that is used before nouns– and a long form that is used after nouns.
En casa con la familia Gramática 1
Short Form—before noun
• Possessive adjectives show ownership or relationships between people.
ellasellasus libros
ellossus libros
élsu libro
ustedessu libro
usted
tus libros
tu librotú
nuestros libros/nuestras casasmis libros
nuestro libro/nuestra casanosotros(as)mi libroyo
OwnerOwner
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Gender and number agreement
• While possessive adjectives refer to the owner, their form agrees in gender and number with the noun that comes after them.
Martín vive con sus abuelos.
Carlos y yo vivimos con nuestra abuela.
refers to agrees grammatically
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Long Form—after noun
• Possessive adjectives show ownership or relationships between people.
ellasellasuyos, suyas
ellossuyos, suyas
élsuyo, suyaustedessuyo, suya
usted
tuyos, tuyas
tuyo, tuyatúnuestros, nuestrasmíos, mías
nuestro, nuestranosotrosmío, míayo
OwnerOwner
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Long form—ejemplos
• Change to the long form:– Mi blusa – su vestido – Tus camisas – Nuestros libros
mío
suyomía
La blusa mía
El vestido suyo
Las camisas tuyasLos libros nuestros
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Just a note…
• As you may have noticed, the short form and long forms of nuestro are identical. They differ only as to whether they are used before or after the noun.
