Spanish Possessives

How to show possession in Spanish

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Spanish Possessive Adjectives

 

		Initial Forms		Terminal Forms
		singular	plural	singular	plural
yo	my	mi	mis	mío mía	míos mías
tú / vos	your	tu	tus	tuyo tuya	tuyos tuyas
él / ella ; usted	his / her / its ; your	su	sus	suyo suya	suyos suyas
nosotros / nosotras	our	nuestro nuestra	nuestros nuestras	nuestro nuestra	nuestros nuestras
vosotros / vosotras	your	vuestro vuestra	vuestros vuestras	vuestro vuestra	vuestros vuestras
ellos / ellas ; ustedes	their ; your	su	sus	suyo suya	suyos suyas

 

Remember that vuestro forms are only used in northern/central Spain. Only nuestro and vuestro change for gender (masculine -o becomes feminine -a) in the initial forms.

Su and sus are the possessive adjective for only the usted form (singular you) in Latin America. For his, her, its, your (plural), and their, use de + the subject pronoun after the noun.

los libros de ellos  their books (literally: the books of they)

The terminal forms are placed after the noun, and the noun must be preceded by the definite article, except in direct address.  When used with the indefinite article, it corresponds to the English "of mine, of yours," etc.

el libro mío  my book
un amigo mío  a friend of mine

 

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