AGGETTIVI POSSESSIVI italiano (mio, tuo, suo, nostro, vostro, loro...) - Italian Lesson 😊 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 - YouTube

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Today, we still talk about adjectives, in particular, we deal with possessive adjectives.

What do the possessive adjectives indicate?

Indicate to whom the person, the animal or the thing indicated by the name to which they refer, belongs.

So the possessive adjective tells us who it belongs to;

who owns that thing or person or animal.

The possessive adjectives agree, as all

the adjectives, in

gender and number

with the

noun to which

they refer to.

And what are they?

Here they are.

So these are the possessive adjectives

in the singular.

For the masculine: MIO - TUO - SUO - NOSTRO - VOSTRO - LORO

For the feminine: MIA - TUA - SUA - NOSTRA - VOSTRA - LORO.

Let's look at some examples: "My car is red ". What do you notice? The use of MIA

because it refers to a car, so feminine singular, MIA will be feminine

singular. Furthermore, the adjective tells us who owns that car, in this

case to me. Same thing here: "HIS dog is smaller than yours". SUO refers to

dog, therefore singular masculine, to whom it belongs the dog? To him or her: how you can see the adjective

third-person singular is the same, regardless of whether he is a man who possesses, or

a woman! The genre changes only in relation to the noun of what is owned and NOT in

relation to who owns! While YOU will be, in this case, in the form of a possessive pronoun.

"Their city is far away". Same identical thing. "YOUR son is nice". Then,

do you notice something strange? Yes, we have here put the articles in red, but not here! Why?

Then I'll explain to you right away! Because possessive adjectives in the singular are always preceded by

articles; in fact LA, IL, LA. But there is an exception! They are not preceded by the article,

if they refer to family members! Yeah! If the possessive adjective refers to

a family member does not take the article! In fact, we will say "MY son",

"YOUR father", "HIS/HER mother", "OUR uncle", "YOUR cousin ", without article! But there is an exception,

that is, the adjective of the third person plural which, instead, wants the article! "THEIR brother".

Let’s now see the plural possessive adjectives. In the masculine: MIEI - TUOI - SUOI - NOSTRI - VOSTRI - LORO.

In the feminine: MIE - TUE - SUE - NOSTRE - VOSTRE - LORO. How you can see LORO, adjective

third-person plural, doesn’t change in gender or number. Let's look at some examples:

"YOUR shoes are high". Same thing: the adjective agrees with the noun to which it refers, both

in gender and number and tells us to whom the thing expressed by the noun belongs;

to whom do the shoes belong? To you. "OUR cousins ​​are Spanish "."Their recipes are

delicious". “MY friends have arrived ". Do you notice anything? Yes, here we have the word

"cousins", that is family members, and we have the article. Well yes! Possessive adjectives

plurals are always preceded by the article: it doesn't matter that you're talking about family

members! Now let's see other two possessive adjectives very common

in Italian: PROPRIO, with its variarions: PROPRIA, PROPRI, PROPRIE and ALTRUI.

So, PROPRIO is used in place of the possessive adjective of third-person singular (SUO, SUA)

or plural (THEIR), but only if it refers to the subject of the sentence. Yes, that is, only if the subject

is the one who owns the thing to which the adjective refers. For example: "Each person brings

THEIR OWN backpack ". Then, PROPRIO refers a backpack, so it agrees in gender

and number (masculine, singular). Why could we use PROPRIO? Because

refers to the subject of the sentence, that is each person, as each person owns

the backpack and must carry it. Instead, look at this sentence: "I asked Maria to bring

her backpack ". Here I could not use PROPRIO because the backpack is owned by Maria, but the subject of

the sentence is me! I asked Maria! So, since the subject, I, and

who owns the thing are two different people, we cannot use OWN (PROPRIO)! We will continue

to use SUO, SUA, SUOI, etc. Let’s now consider ALTRUI. ALTRUI means "of another"

or plural "of others": this does not change! it’s always ALTRUI!

And it indicates an undefined owner, actually; however, we can only use it for people,

therefore "we must not judge the life of others", that is, one must not judge the lives of other people.

In this case, we're not talking, like here, of a definite owner (of Mary);

we don't know who we are addressing, it is very generic and, therefore, we can use

ALTRUI! Alrighr, for today, our lesson ends here! However, if you want the written explanation

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