Nouns, cases and negation
Possessives: my, your and whose
Stems:
mein my;
dein your informal singular;
sein his/its;
ihr her/their;
unser our;
euer your informal plural;
Ihr formal your.
First choose the owner, then the ending required by the possessed noun's gender, number and case.
Nominative: mein Vater, meine Mutter, mein Kind, meine Eltern.
Accusative: meinen Vater, meine Mutter, mein Kind, meine Eltern.
Dative: meinem Vater, meiner Mutter, meinem Kind, meinen Eltern.
Other stems follow the same pattern. With euer, forms commonly contract: eure Mutter, euren Vater.
- Example
- Das ist meine Tasche. Ich suche meinen Schlüssel.
- English
- That is my bag. I am looking for my key.
- Hinglish
- Woh mera bag hai. Main apni chaabi dhoondh raha hoon.
A Hindi feminine noun such as chaabi (key) does not make German Schlüssel feminine. German grammatical gender belongs to the German noun.
Sie besucht ihren Bruder. Wessen Buch ist das?
Hinglish: Woh apne bhai se milne jaati hai. Yeh kiski kitaab hai?
The owner and the grammatical case are separate decisions.