4.7 Adjectives: Who Owns What Flashcards
¿Tienes tú los libros de la biblioteca?
Do you have the books from the library?
To use mío, tuyo, suyo, etc. as pronouns, all you have to do is add an el, la, los, or las in front. For example, if you want to use “mine” as a noun (as in, “Mine is the best,” or, “You want mine”), you will use ____________________.
el mío, la mía, los míos, or las mías.
Look at the difference between the following sentences: ¿Es este asiento suyo? No quiero usar el tuyo.
Is this seat yours? I don’t want to use yours. In the first sentence, “yours” is acting as an adjective. In the second sentence, “yours” is acting as a pronoun.
Singular/Plural Noun: mi mis tu tus su sus nuestro/a nuestros/as These types of adjectives are used to express possession or ownership. When the pronoun is singular, these adjectives do not change according to gender. However, when the pronoun is plural (nosotros or vosotros), the possessive adjectives do reflect the gender of the subject noun.
my your (familiar) their, your, his, her, its our
Nuestras carteras son iguales.
Our handbags are the same.
¿Mi casa está muy desordenada, y la tuya?
My house is very messy, and yours?
Tu carro es amarillo.
Your car is yellow.
mío/a míos/as tuyo/a tuyos/as suyo/a suyos/as nuestro/a nuestros/as
my, mine your, yours (familiar) his, her, hers, its, your, yours our, ours
El color de mi vestido es negro.
The color of my dress is black.
¡Las flores en tu jardín están todas secas! ¿Las tuyas también, no?
The flowers in your garden are all dry! Yours are too, aren’t they?
¡Las flores en tu jardín están todas secas!
The flowers in your garden are all dry!
Las manzanas son nuestras.
The apples are ours.
Sí, y también tengo los míos.
Yes, and I have mine too.
¿Las tuyas también, no?
Yours are too, aren’t they?
¿Tienes tú los libros de la biblioteca? Sí, y también tengo los míos.
Do you have the books from the library? Yes, and I have mine too.
