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09. Possessive Adjectives

• Time range: 00:35:52 – 00:38:32 (duration 00:02:40)
• Source: A Complete Guide To Every Fundamental In Spanish (The Conclusion)

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[00:35:52] possessive adjectives in Spanish indicate that something is being possessed by somebody or is in the own hands of somebody the English version of

[on-screen 00:35:57] English Possessive Adjectives: my our your y'all's his/her/its | their

[00:35:58] this would be my your his her or it our Ys English doesn't have this adjective but I'm still including it because Spanish has it and finally there in

[on-screen 00:36:07] Spanish Possessive Adjectives: mi nuestro/a tu vuestro/a su su

[00:36:07] Spanish these possessive adjectives look like this me with no accent because with

[on-screen 00:36:11] mi - my (adjective) mi - me (pronoun)

[00:36:11] the accent you'll have a direct object pronoun me to with no accent because

[on-screen 00:36:14] tu - your (adjective) tu - you (pronoun)

[00:36:15] with the accent you have the pronoun you

[on-screen 00:36:17] su - his, her, their

[00:36:17] Su and this adjective can simultaneously mean his her or there and you can only tell the difference between them in context and finally noest vestro VRA

[on-screen 00:36:24] Spanish Possessive Adjectives: mi nuestro/a tu vuestro/a su su

[00:36:26] when the interesting things about possessive adjectives in Spanish is that the adjectives nestro and vestro are the

[on-screen 00:36:31] Spanish Possessive Adjectives: mi nuestro/a tu vuestro/a su su

[00:36:31] only adjectives that have gender if you're referring to something masculine in Spanish and you want to use the hour adjective you would say nestro and then

[on-screen 00:36:36] our cat nuestro gato

[00:36:37] whatever the follow-up is you can do the

[on-screen 00:36:38] our cat nuestro gato our rose nuestra rosa

[00:36:38] same with nestra using feminine words and you can replicate this concept using

[on-screen 00:36:41] y‘all's cat vuestro gato y‘all's rose vuestra rosa

[00:36:42] the vestro adjective however I recommend

[on-screen 00:36:43] Spanish Possessive Adjectives: mi nuestro/a tu V o/a su su

[00:36:44] not focusing on these adjectives because they're not used as often as the other ones in Spanish and also all of these possessive adjectives have plurality and the way that you pluralize them is by simply adding an S at the end of every

[on-screen 00:36:53] Spanish Possessive Adjectives: mis nuestro/as tus vuestro/as sus SUS

[00:36:53] adjective and with plurality you can only use it when you're referring to noun that are not singular for example if you want to say my car you would say m cooche but saying my cars would be M cooches if you want to say your dog you would say two perro and saying your dogs would be twoos however using the Sue

[on-screen 00:37:08] your dogs tus perros

[on-screen 00:37:09] su - his, her, their

[00:37:09] adjective is where the syntax gets a bit tricky and like I said again this adjective can mean his her and there it can be pluralized and you can only tell the difference between them in context

[on-screen 00:37:18] | talk with his friend

[00:37:18] you can have a sentence in English like I talk with his friend and in Spanish the sentence would be Yu Amigo in

[on-screen 00:37:22] | talk with his friend Yo hablo con su amigo

[00:37:24] English understanding the adjective is very easy because who have an adjective

[on-screen 00:37:26] I talk with his friend Yo hablo con su amigo

[00:37:27] that specifies who it is in this case it's masculine in Spanish however it

[on-screen 00:37:30] | talk with his friend Yo hablo con su amigo

[00:37:30] would be difficult to tell if Su refers to his her or their a tip that I can give to not get these confused is to always specify who is the subject within the sentence that you're saying you can

[on-screen 00:37:39] | talk with John and with his father

[00:37:39] say a sentence like I talk with Jon and with his father and in Spanish the sentence would

[on-screen 00:37:44] | talk with John and with his father Yo hablo con John y con su padre

[00:37:44] be and in this context you would know that the adjective Su is masculine and indicates his because JN is a masculine name likewise you can have a sentence

[on-screen 00:37:51] | talk with Emma and with her mother

[00:37:52] like I talk with Emma and with her mother and in Spanish the sentence would be you Emma

[on-screen 00:37:56] | talk with Emma and with her mother Yo hablo con Emma y con su madre

[00:37:57] and in this context we know that Su is

[on-screen 00:37:59] | talk with Emma and with her mother Yo hablo con Emma y con su madre

[00:37:59] feminine and indicates her because Emma is feminine at last you can have a

[on-screen 00:38:02] | talk with my parents and with their friends

[00:38:02] sentence that utilizes two adjectives and you can pluralize them both like I talk with my parents and with their friends and in Spanish it would

[on-screen 00:38:09] | talk with my parents and with their friends Yo hablo con mis padres y con sus amigos

[00:38:11] be is pluralized because padis is a plural noun and sus is also pluralized

[on-screen 00:38:15] | talk with my parents and with their friends Yo hablo con mis padres y con sus amigos

[00:38:16] because of Amigos but it mainly refers to the adjective there because of my parents's friends which is they friends

[on-screen 00:38:21] Spanish Possessive Adjectives: mi(s) nuestro/a(s) tu(s) | vuestro/a(s) su(s) su(s)

[00:38:21] using the system is actually quite useful to keep these possessive adjectives in the back of your mind because the sentences that you can make with them are practical and Limitless and once again the same principle applies to any sentence you want to say using these adjectives demonstra of