Danish Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns

Learn how to say my, your, his, her, etc. in Danish

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Danish Possessives

	with en words	with et words	with plural words
my / mine	min	mit	mine
your / yours	din	dit	dine
his / her / its / their	sin	sit	sine
his / his	hans	hans	hans
her / hers	hendes	hendes	hendes
its / its	dens	dens	dens
our / ours	vores	vores	vores
your / yours	deres	deres	deres
their / theirs	deres	deres	deres

The same forms are used for possessive adjectives that are used directly before nouns and for possessive pronouns that replace a noun. For example, this is my car and this is mine would be translated as det her er min bil and det her er min.

Sin, sit and sine can only be used when the third person possessive adjective refers to the subject of the same clause. These words can be translated as his, her, its or their. Generally, if you cannot insert "own" after the possessive adjective in English, you cannot use sin/sit/sine.

Per besøger sin mor. = Per visits his (own) mother. (Sin refers back to Per.)
Eva ringer til hans mor. = Eva calls his mother. (Hans refers to Per, not Eva.)

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