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🗓️ 13 June 2008
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In this Beginner lesson, lesson 108, we talk about possessive adjectives, that is, words like ‘my’, ‘your’ and ‘his’ in English. We'll discover that, like regular adjectives, possessive adjectives also must agree in number and gender with the nouns they qualify. Let's go ahead and see how they work.
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0:00.0 | In this beginner lesson, lesson 108, we're going to talk about possessive adjectives, that is words like my, your and his in English. |
0:15.0 | Amelie in French possessive adjectives are called |
0:19.0 | Le's adjective possessive. |
0:25.0 | Le's adjective possessive. |
0:29.0 | They're called Le's adjective possessive, |
0:32.0 | because they indicate possession for example who owns or possesses something |
0:38.2 | Amili in the accompanying lesson guide available from our website there's a grid containing all the variants of the possessive adjectives. |
0:45.5 | In French, as we might expect, Le's adjective possessive agree with the nouns they qualify. |
0:52.3 | Let's take an example. |
0:53.7 | How about this? |
0:54.8 | My dog is called Rolo. |
0:57.8 | In French we say, |
0:59.2 | M'on shien, it's |
1:01.5 | appel the Rolu. |
1:03.0 | My Shian is a pal Rolu. |
1:07.0 | Let's note here that a dog, an Shennes, is a masculine noun. |
1:15.0 | The masculine possessive adjective we're using here is mon. |
1:20.0 | For your dog, similarly, we'll say, |
1:23.0 | T'n Shian. |
1:25.0 | T'n Shian. |
1:28.0 | This will be the possessive adjective we'll use when addressing a friend or someone we know well. |
1:34.4 | For his dog or her dog, we'll say, |
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