Possessive Articles
ഉടമസ്ഥാവകാശ വിശേഷണങ്ങൾ
German possessives (mein, dein, sein...) decline just like ein — changing ending based on the noun's gender and case — unlike Malayalam's invariant possessive pronouns.
Grammar Comparison
വ്യാകരണ താരതമ്യം
One possessive word, many endings vs. Malayalam's fixed form
mein Vater (masc.), meine Mutter (fem.), mein Kind (neut.) — same root 'mein', different endings
എന്റെ അച്ഛൻ, എന്റെ അമ്മ, എന്റെ കുട്ടി — എന്റെ never changes
Malayalam's possessive എന്റെ ('my') is invariant — it stays എന്റെ no matter the noun's class or role in the sentence. German mein behaves like the indefinite article ein with a possessive meaning attached: it takes an ending depending on whether the following noun is masculine, feminine, neuter, or plural, and on the noun's case (nominative, accusative, dative). Learn possessives as 'ein with an owner attached' rather than as a fixed word, and the pattern from Articles & Gender carries over directly.
Vocabulary
വാക്കുകൾ
- Malayalam
- എന്റെente
- English
- my (masc./neut. noun)
- Malayalam
- എന്റെente
- English
- my (fem./plural noun)
- Malayalam
- നിന്റെninte
- English
- your (informal)
- Malayalam
- അവന്റെavante
- English
- his
- Malayalam
- അവളുടെavalude
- English
- her
- Malayalam
- ഞങ്ങളുടെnjangalude
- English
- our