Long-Form Possessives

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Long-Form Possessives
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• Remember possessive adjectives?
• mi nuestro
• tu vuestro
• su su
• Theyre equivalent to
• my our
• your your
• his,her their
• its
• And they ALWAYS come BEFORE a noun.

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• Now youre going to learn another set of
  possessives, called long-form possessives
• mío nuestro
• tuyo vuestro
• suyo suyo
• These CANNOT come before a noun. They come AFTER
  a noun, and when they do, they frequently
  emphasize possession
• La casa mía es muy grande. My house is very
  big.

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• But more often than not, they are equivalent to
  the following
• mine ours
• yours yours
• his, hers, its theirs
• Note that these are NOT the same as
• my our
• your your
• his, her, its their

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• My house is big. This house is mine.
• Mine house is big. This house is my.
• You cant say these. Duh. So just like
  my/your/her and mine/yours/hers have different
  rules for usage, mi/tu/su and mío/tuyo/suyo have
  different rules for usage.

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• mi nuestro (el) mío (el) nuestro
• tu vuestro (el) tuyo (el) vuestro
• su su (el) suyo (el) suyo
• ALWAYS precedes a noun Mi casa es grande.
• 2. follows a noun La casa mía es
  grande.
• can be a pronoun
• a. This house is mine. - Esta casa es mía.
• b. She uses mine. - Usa la mía/el mío/las
  mías/los míos (depending on whether whats mine
  is masc./fem./sing./pl.).
• Youll notice that a doesnt have an article
  before mía but b does. Here are the rules for
  using the article
• 1. If the comes right after a noun,
  it doesnt get an article right in front of it
  La casa mía es grande.
• 2. If the comes right after ser,
  it doesnt get an article in front of it
• La casa es mía.
• 3. If the comes anywhere else, you
  have to have an article with it
• La mía es grande. Tienes la mía.
  Vivimos en la mía.

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• To sum up
• Mi, tu, su, etc. ( ) can be used ONLY before
  a noun.
• Mío, tuyo, etc. ( ) is used everywhere else.
• is NOT preceded by an article if
• its preceded by a noun.
• is NOT preceded by an article if
  its
• preceded by ser.
• IS preceded by an article at all
  other
• times.

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