• Basics
• Intro
• I, You, They
• I am, I have
• Things You Ask at School
• Who, What, Why
• Doing Things
• Verb Basics
• Basic Sentence Structure
• Basic Verbs
• Anatomy of a Verb
• Things
• German for Kiwis
• Names of Things
• The, The, The
• The thing, a thing
• Some lists of things
• Bits n Pieces
• Time
• Numbers
• More Gramma
• Accuse who? Nominate what?
• Thats my thing!
• Commands!!!!
• Dativ
• Prepositions
• Before, Now, After
• Tenses
• Even More Gramma
• What sort of thing?

Thats my thing!

If you wish to refer to something that you or someone possesses in English we use the words 'my', 'mine', 'your', 'our' etc. for example:

My house is green (Mein Haus ist grün)
Your dog is loud (Dein Hund ist laut)
Your cat is loud (Deine Katze ist laut)
Our child is in the park (Unser Kind ist in den Park)
Their book is boring (Ihr Buch ist langweilig)
Her bike rides fast (Ihr Rad fährt schnell)

These are called possessive pronouns and they also have a form in German.

Singular
ich = mein (my)
du = dein (your, informal, singular)
er = sein (his)
es = sein (its)
sie = ihr (her)
Sie = Ihr (your, formal, singular)

Plural
wir = unser (our)
ihr = euer (your, informal, plural)
sie = ihe (their)
Sie = Ihr (your, formal, plural)

Masculine, and neutral use the above form. The form changes for feminine and plural subjects. Use an 'e' at the end for all feminine and plural subjects except euer (which becomes eure).

It is important to remember that the above is for the nominativ case. That means that the possessive pronoun is applying to the subject of the sentence.

Accusative case has a different form of the possessive pronoun and it changes more often depending on the gender and whether it is used with a singular or plural subject.

I wash your plate (Ich wasche deinen Teller)
He threw their cat (Er warf ihre Katze)
Their car is her car (Ihr Auto is ihr Auto)

Its a matter of memorising them. The following is a table of akkusativ possessive pronouns: