| Possessive Pronouns (my, your, his, her, etc.) |
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Like the personal pronouns, the possessive pronouns have a neutral and a stressed form.
Note 1: In the 1st person plural, ons is used before singular het-words, and onze elsewhere, e.g. ons huis 'our house', ons kind 'our child', but onze auto 'our car', onze kinderen 'our children'. Note 2: Dutch does not have a direct equivalent of English 'its'. 'The village and its inhabitants' can be translated as het dorp en zijn inwoners or het dorp en de inwoners ervan. Note 3: The abbreviated forms m'n, z'n, d'r are used in spoken Dutch and informal written media (comics, novels and television subtitling), but not in official documents, business correspondence, or newspaper articles. © DutchToday 2007 |
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