1. Possessive Adjectives What are they? What do they do? What do they look like?

2. What are Possessive Adjectives? O Adjectives describe and/or modify nouns. O Possession implies ownership. O Possessive adjectives show ownership of the noun to which they are attached. O They take the physical position of an article in relationship to a noun. O the car  my car

3. What do Possessive Adjectives look like? Pronoun I you (singular, informal) he she it we you (plural, informal) they You (formal) Possessive adjectives mirror their pronoun counterparts.

4. What do Possessive Adjectives look like? PronounPossessive Adj. Imy Possessive adjectives mirror their pronoun counterparts.

5. What do Possessive Adjectives look like? PronounPossessive Adj. Imy you (singular, informal)your Possessive adjectives mirror their pronoun counterparts.

6. What do Possessive Adjectives look like? PronounPossessive Adj. Imy you (singular, informal)your hehis Possessive adjectives mirror their pronoun counterparts.

7. What do Possessive Adjectives look like? PronounPossessive Adj. Imy you (singular, informal)your hehis sheher Possessive adjectives mirror their pronoun counterparts.

8. What do Possessive Adjectives look like? PronounPossessive Adj. Imy you (singular, informal)your hehis sheher itits Possessive adjectives mirror their pronoun counterparts.

9. What do Possessive Adjectives look like? PronounPossessive Adj. Imy you (singular, informal)your hehis sheher itits weour Possessive adjectives mirror their pronoun counterparts.

10. What do Possessive Adjectives look like? PronounPossessive Adj. Imy you (singular, informal)your hehis sheher itits weour you (plural, informal)y’alls Possessive adjectives mirror their pronoun counterparts.

11. What do Possessive Adjectives look like? PronounPossessive Adj. Imy you (singular, informal)your hehis sheher itits weour you (plural, informal)y’alls theytheir Possessive adjectives mirror their pronoun counterparts.

12. What do Possessive Adjectives look like? PronounPossessive Adj. Imy you (singular, informal)your hehis sheher itits weour you (plural, informal)y’alls theytheir You (formal)Your Possessive adjectives mirror their pronoun counterparts.

13. Did you notice… O There are some identical possessive adjectives: O his and its ( both 3 rd person singular ) O her, their, Your (formal) O Some of them end in “ein O Some of them look like the subject pronoun “ihr.” O Keine Panik! Context will help out with the confusion!

14. How do I use Possessive Adjectives? O Possessive Adjectives take the position of an article. O the car  my car O das Auto  mein Auto or ein Auto  mein Auto O Specifically, they take the position and follow the patterns of “ein” words. O This may be your only challenging part: do you know the ein-word endings across the cases?

15. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative Accusative Dative

16. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__ Accusative Dative

17. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__eine Accusative Dative

18. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__eineein__ Accusative Dative

19. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__eineein__keine Accusative Dative

20. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__eineein__keine Accusative einen Dative

21. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__eineein__keine Accusative eineneine Dative

22. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__eineein__keine Accusative eineneineein__ Dative

23. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__eineein__keine Accusative eineneineein__keine Dative

24. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__eineein__keine Accusative eineneineein__keine Dative einem

25. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__eineein__keine Accusative eineneineein__keine Dative einemeiner

26. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__eineein__keine Accusative eineneineein__keine Dative einemeinereinem

27. Ein-Word Endings MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ein__eineein__keine Accusative eineneineein__keine Dative einemeinereinemkeinen

29. Example Possessive Adjective MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative mein__meinemein__meine Accusative meinenmeinemein__meine Dative meinemmeinermeinemmeinen

30. Example Possessive Adjective MasculineFeminineNeuterPlural Nominative ihr__ihreihr__ihre Accusative ihrenihreihr__ihre Dative ihremihrerihremihren

31. Zum Beispiel O Mein Vater schenkt meinem Bruder seinen Wagen zum Geburtstag. O Meine Freundin bringt meiner Lehrerin meine CD.