Possessive Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
Polish possessives — my, your, our — agree with the thing being owned, the same way regular adjectives do. A few, though, never change at all.
Grammar Comparison
Grammar Comparison
Possessives Agree With the Thing Owned
mój dom, moja książka, moje okno
my house, my book, my window
mój, moja, and moje are all 'my' — which one you use depends entirely on the gender of the noun that follows, not on who owns it. This is exactly how regular adjectives behave, since possessives in Polish are really just a special class of adjective.
jego, jej, and ich Never Change
jego dom, jego książka, jego okno
his house, his book, his window
Unlike mój/twój/nasz/wasz, the possessives jego (his), jej (her), and ich (their) stay exactly the same no matter what they modify — jego dom and jego książka both use jego, even though dom is masculine and książka is feminine. These three are a welcome shortcut: no agreement to worry about at all.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- English
- my (m)
- English
- my (f)
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- my (n)
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- your (m)
- English
- your (f)
- English
- his
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- her
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- our (m)
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- our (f)
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- your-all (m)
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- your-all (f)
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- their