Possessive Articles
ఆస్తి సూచక విశేషణాలు
German possessives (mein, dein, sein...) decline just like ein — changing ending based on the noun's gender and case — unlike Telugu's invariant possessive words.
Grammar Comparison
వ్యాకరణ పోలిక
One possessive word, many endings vs. Telugu's fixed form
mein Vater (masc.), meine Mutter (fem.), mein Kind (neut.) — same root 'mein', different endings
నా నాన్న, నా అమ్మ, నా పిల్లవాడు — నా never changes
Telugu's possessive నా ('my') is invariant — it stays నా no matter the noun's class or role in the sentence, whether it's నా నాన్న ('my father'), నా అమ్మ ('my mother'), or నా పుస్తకం ('my book'). 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
పదజాలం
- Telugu
- నాnaa
- English
- my (masc./neut. noun)
- Telugu
- నాnaa
- English
- my (fem./plural noun)
- Telugu
- నీnee
- English
- your (informal)
- Telugu
- వాడిvaadi
- English
- his
- Telugu
- ఆమెaame
- English
- her
- Telugu
- మాmaa
- English
- our