Possessive Adjectives

We use short form possessive adjectives in Spanish the same way we do in English. We place the adjective in front of the noun. The formula looks like this: (short form) possessive adjective + noun

English: my car your car our car Spanish: mi coche tu coche nuestro coche

Now would be a good time to talk about what we mean by "plural" in this situation. The plural form is used when we have more than one thing being possessed, not when we have more than one possessor:

English: my cars your cars our car Spanish: mis coches tus coches nuestro coche In the first example, since there is more than one car, "my" is translated in the plural mis even though there is only one of me. Similarly in the second example, "his" is translated in the plural sus even though there is only one of him. In the last example there is more than one of them, but we use the singular subecause this time there is only one car. If you can remember that adjectives (even possessive adjectives) only agree with the nouns they modify, this concept shouldn't be too difficult.

Short Form Possessive Adjectives in Spanish

mi nuestro tu vuestro su su

If the examples above look pretty easy, they're only the basic forms. Like any good Spanish adjective, possessive adjectives need to agree in number so we have some variations for plural forms:

mi, mis nuestro, nuestros tu, tus vuestro, vuestros su, sus su, sus