Catalan possessive pronouns

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Possessive adjectives in Catalan follow the gender and number of what is possessed. There is no difference between "his", "her" and "its".

In the following table, the 6 lines give the different possessors, and the 4 rows indicate what is possessed.

	m sg.	f sg.	m pl.	f pl.
1st sg	el meu	la meva / la meua*	els meus	les meves / les meues*
2nd sg	el teu	la teva / la teua*	els teus	les teves / les teues*
3rd sg	el seu	la seva / la seua*	els seus	les seves / les seues*
1st pl	el nostre	la nostra	els nostres	les nostra
2nd pl	el vostre	la vostra	els vostres	les vostra
3rd pl	el seu / llur	la seva / la seua* / llur	els seus / llurs	les seves / les seues* / llurs

To address someone formally, use the pronoun vostè with the 3rd person.

Those forms marked with an asterisk (*) are more common in the Valencian dialects, and to a lesser extent, in some of the North-Western dialects.

Note that llur and llurs are used only in the written language.

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Besides the aforementioned set of possessive pronouns, there's another (rather archaic) group of singular possessive pronouns that's not used as often, but it's worth been taken into consideration since it's used in the literary language, and also, in the written and spoken form of some dialects. Also, in standard Catalan, it's sort of common using constructions such as:

• ma mare instead of "la meva mare" (my mother)

Curiously enough, they are only used in the common language when speaking about (close) relatives.

	m sg.	f sg.	m pl.	f pl.
1st sg	mon	ma	mo(n)s	mes
2nd sg	ton	ta	to(n)s	tes
3rd sg	son	sa	so(n)s	ses

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