Genitive Pronouns / Pronomen im Genitiv - Learn German with Polly Lingual

Introduction

Einführung

Genitive pronouns are used to indicate possession or ownership. They are roughly equivalent to saying “my (noun)’s” or “his (noun)’s” in English.

For instance, in English you could say “This is my father’s book” or “This is the book of my father”. In German the sentence would be Dies ist das Buch meines Vaters. Instead of literally translating “of my” as von mein you simply use meiner. Notice also that Vater takes the ~s ending because it is masculine. In the sentence Dies ist das Buch meiner Mutter the feminine noun Mutter does not take the ~s ending.

Singular	First-person	meines of my masculine meiner of my feminine
	Second-person	deines of your masculine informal deiner of your feminine informal
	Third-person	seines of his masculine seiner of his feminine ihres of her masculine of their masculine ihrer of her feminine of their feminine
Plural	First-person	unses of our masculine unser of our feminine
	Second-person	eures of you alls masculine informal eurer of you alls feminine informal
	Third-person	ihres of her masculine of their masculine ihrer of her feminine of their feminine Ihres of your masculine formal of you alls masculine formal Ihrer of your feminine formal of you alls feminine formal