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Possession
The most common way to express possession in Spanish is with what are referred to as the unstressed possessive adjectives: SINGULAR
PLURAL
The possessive adjective precedes the noun to which it refers. The ending of the adjective reflects the number of the thing possessed: mi casa, mis libros, nuestra casa, nuestros libros, su casa, sus libros, etc. Nuestro and vuestro reflect gender (masculine or feminine) as well as number: nuestras amigas, vuestros amigos, etc. Since su and sus can have multiple meanings (your, formal, singular and plural; his; her; its;their, masculine or feminine), another structure is sometimes used instead for clarification: definite article + noun + de + possessor. su libro = el libro de...
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Examples of Possession
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