Swedish grammar: possessive pronouns
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Another hardly different name in Swedish is possessivpronomen. In English they are also sometimes called possessive adjectives.
Possessiva pronomen possessive pronouns
| Person person |
Utrum1 common |
Neutrum2 neuter |
Pluralis plural |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg ‘my’ | min | mitt | mina | |
| 2sg ‘your’ | din | ditt | dina | |
| 3sg | ‘her’ | hennes | ||
| ‘his’ | hans | |||
| ‘its’ | dess3 | |||
| 1pl ‘our’ | vår | vårt | våra | |
| 2pl ‘your’ | er | ert | era | |
| 3pl ‘their’ | deras | |||
1 Also called reale or n-ord (‘n words’) in Swedish
2 Also called t-ord (‘t words’) in Swedish
3 The common and neuter words are the same in the case of possessive pronouns
Examples
All possessive pronouns agree with the nouns they modify. In the third person they are all the same, though.
- Min bok ‘my book’ (bok c sg)
- Mina böcker ‘my books’ (böcker c pl)
- Vårt forum ‘our forum’ (forum n sg)
- Våra forum/fora ‘our forums/fora’ (forum/fora n pl)
- Hennes hus ‘her house/houses’ (hus n sg/pl)
