Possessive adjectives

Adjectifs Possessifs

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• My, my, my! Mon, ma, mes !

Rules – Règles

Possessive adjectives – also called possessive determiners – show who or what owns the noun that immediately follows. You can spot a possessive adjective right before its noun. Possessive adjectives work differently in English and in French.

Look at these 3 examples:

mon lit –> my bed

ma chambre –> my room

mes clés –> my keys

MY is translated in 3 different ways in French : MON, MA, MES. That is because it agrees with the noun that it modifies, the noun that follows.

• If the noun is masculine, the adjective is masculine: lit is masculine, so we pick from the masculine column: mon
• If the noun is feminine, the adjective is feminine: chambre is feminine, so we pick from the feminine column: ma
• If the noun is plural, the adjective is plural: clés is plural, so we pick from the plural column: mes

List – Liste

Here is a list with the English, the masculine form, the feminine form, and the plural form.

Examples – Exemples

my father –> mon père            our book –> notre livre

my mother –> ma mère           our books –> nos livres

her brother –> son frère           his girlfriend –> son amie

his sister –> sa sœur                  their boyfriends –> leurs amis

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