Possessive pronouns as adjectives   personal pronouns possessive pronouns - adjectival (basic form) possessive pronouns - substantival (basic form)   German English German English German English   ich I mein/e my mein/s/e mine   Du you dein/e your dein/s/e yours   er he sein/e his sein/s/e his   sie she ihr/e her ihr/s/e hers   es it sein/e its sein/s/e its   wir we unser/e our unser/s/e ours   ihr you euer/eure your euers/eure yours   sie they ihr/e their ihr/s/e theirs

Examples   personal pronouns - adjectival   German English   Meine Blumen sind rot. My flowers are red.   Du hast grüne Augen You have green eyes.   personal pronouns - substantival     German English   Meine sind blau. Mine are blue.   Deine sind grün. Yours are green.

Now that you have seen the overview and read that there is said something about basic form, you'll probably already know that there is more to it, since there is the omnipresent declension. But not enough with the declension! We have to consider the gender (in masculine, feminine and neutral) and the number. That makes quite to huge number of declensions only for the possessive pronouns. The accordance of the gender and number is always related to the object that is possessed, but we will see more in detail.