We'll start the lesson on pronouns when they have the function of the
possessive adjective. So as you know, these pronouns can be subjective pronouns.
like من رفتم: I went.
But at the same time they can be in the place of a
possessive adjective, when they have been اضافه to another noun. So let's look
at some examples. We have the word کتاب, means book.
Now we make book اضافه to one of these pronouns.
Like کتاب او.
As you will learn, the sign of اضافه is "eh."
So کتابِ او.
Here او is not he, but it's
his. So کتاب او is his book. Or another example: دفتر, notebook. دفتر
Now if we [add] دفتر to, for example, شما
دفتر شما.
کتاب او, his book or her book
دفتر شما: your book
درخت او
His tree. There's a tree there, and this is his tree, not he tree. So او here
is not a subjective pronoun, when it is used after a noun and has been اضافه
to that noun like here: دفتر شما
It's a possessive adjective. An important point about this possessive adjective is
that they cannot be, for example a possessive adjective like شما, it
cannot be in the place of a possessive adjective and at the same
time in the place of subject of the sentence. For example if you say that
شما دفتر شما را خردیدید.
This sentence is wrong, because شما has been used in
the place of subject pronoun and possessive adjective. So in
this case, we don't use this pronounce in the place of possessive adjective.
Because the subject is the same and so there is another way of forming
possessive adjectives; that is using other personal endings, that in these
cases: دفترتان
دفترتان is equal to دفتر شما but here we cannot
use "دفتر شما" because the subject of the sentence is "شما", so grammatically,
they are the same. But in terms of usage, it's important to know that if the
subject of the sentence is "شما", we cannot have it as a possessive adjective
in this form. The same about
من، تو، او، ما، شما، آنها
So the other form of forming
possessive adjectives is the way we will talk about in another lesson.