posessive adj

• su and sus can both mean so many different things!

  • his

  • her

  • its

  • your (formal and plural)

  • their

• It's important to identify which owner is meant by looking in the CONTEXT.

Multiple Select

What can su mean?

• his

• her

• your

• their

• its

Multiple Select

What can sus mean?

• his

• her

• your

• its

• their

​So how can we know which form of the posessive adj to use?

• ​just like other Spanish adjectives, possessive adjectives agree in number with what they describe.

  • Mis primos = My cousins

    • There's only one me, but the cousins are plural, so we make the adj plural "Mis"

In the case of Nuestro...

​we also have to agree in gender and number with what is owned, NOT with the owner

Nuestra casa = Our house Nuestros libros = Our books

Nuestras abuelas = Our grandmothers

Poll

Which posessive adj have to agree in number?

• all of them

• only nuestro

• only su

• only mi

• only tu

Poll

Which possessive adj have to agree in gender?

• all of them

• just nuestro (a,os,as)

• just su

• just mi

• just tu

​ONLY

nuestro, nuestra

nuestros, nuestras

agree in

both gender and number

Multiple Select

su familia

• his family

• our family

• your family

• their family

Multiple Choice

tu familia

• your family

• his family

• her family

• their family

Multiple Choice

our family

• nuestro familia

• nuestra familia

• nuestros familios

• nuestras familia