Expertlatin
- What is genitive personal pronoun?
- What are the genitive personal pronouns in German?
- How do you use the genitive?
- Is your a personal pronoun?
What is genitive personal pronoun?
A genitive pronoun takes the place of the genitive determiner and the noun [our + dog = ours] . It refers back to a previously mentioned or understood noun. The pronoun can stand alone. That is, it can stand independently as the subject or object noun in a clause.
What are the genitive personal pronouns in German?
The genitive personal pronouns (meiner, deiner, seiner, unser, i/Ihrer) are archaic, BUT they form the basis for the possessive determiners (mein-, dein-, sein-, unser-, i/Ihrer-, eur-) that we do still use!
How do you use the genitive?
The genitive case is used to show possession. You use the genitive to show who something belongs to. In English we would use an apostrophe to indicate what belongs to someone or something, eg the school's headteacher. Another way of saying 'the school's headteacher' in English is 'the headteacher of the school'.
Is your a personal pronoun?
In Modern English the personal pronouns include: "I," "you," "he," "she," "it," "we," "they," "them," "us," "him," "her," "his," "hers," "its," "theirs," "our," "your." Personal pronouns are used in statements and commands, but not in questions; interrogative pronouns (like "who," "whom," "what") are used there.
