Possessives / Possessivi - Learn Italian with Polly Lingual

Introduction

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In Italian possessive adjectives indicate ownership in the same way my, your, his, her, and our do in English.

Like most adjectives in Italian they also change form for the gender and plurality of the object they modify. For example, with a masculine noun “my dog” is mio cane but “my dogs” is miei cani. In the case of a feminine noun, “my cow” is mia mucca and “my cows” is mie mucche.

Suo in all its forms is equivalent to “his”, “her” and “their” in English and also “your” if you’re speaking to some formally. While “his” and “her” in English change based on the gender of the possessor, in Italian the words change based on the gender of the object being possessed.

Vostro and its related forms are used to indicate ownership when addressing a group of people informally similar to voi.
Loro has only one form is used for singular and plural objects regardless of gender.

To make any possessive adjective a pronoun you can simply add the corresponding definite article before. This changes mio (my) to il mio (mine).

Singular	First-person	mio my masculine mine mia my feminine mine miei my masculine mine mie my feminine mine
	Second-person	tuo your masculine informal yours tua your feminine informal yours tuoi your masculine informal yours tue your feminine informal yours
	Third-person	suo his her masculine his hers masculine your formal yours formal sua his her feminine his hers feminine your formal yours formal suoi his her masculine his your formal hers masculine yours formal sue his her feminine his your formal hers feminine yours formal
Plural	First-person	nostro our masculine ours masculine nostra our feminine ours feminine nostri our masculine ours masculine nostre our feminine ours feminine
	Second-person	vostro you alls informal vostra you alls feminine informal vostri you alls masculine informal vostre you alls feminine informal
	Third-person	loro their you alls formal theirs you alls formal