Possessive pronouns

Key points

In French possessive pronouns are made up of the definite article followed a word indicating possession: le mien, la tienne, les vôtres etc.
Like most pronouns in French, they have to agree with the noun they are replacing.

A possessive pronoun is a type of word like mine, yours and hers that gives information about who or what possesses something.

In French they are made up of the definite article followed by a word indicating possession: le mien, la tienne, les vôtres etc. Like most pronouns in French, they have to agree with the noun they are replacing. They have the following forms:

Table 69: Possessive pronouns
	masc sing	fem sing	masc pl	fem pl
mine	le mien	la mienne	les miens	les miennes
yours	le tien	la tienne	les tiens	les tiennes
his/hers	le sien	la sienne	les siens	les siennes
ours	le nôtre	la nôtre	les nôtres	les nôtres
yours	le vôtre	la vôtre	les vôtres	les vôtres
theirs	le leur	la leur	les leurs	les leurs

Ma voiture est en panne. Prenons la tienne

My car has broken down. Let’s take yours

Je n’ai pas de stylo. Je peux emprunter le vôtre?

I don’t have a pen. Can I borrow yours?

Voici ton verre. Où est le mien?

Here’s your glass. Where’s mine?

Je lis mon livre et elle lit le sien

I’m reading my book and she’s reading hers

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