Muy bien. Esta lección es para los posesivos en español.
En español when we use nouns, you’ll usually notice articles in front of the noun.
If you've forgotten what articles are you might review the videos on definite and indefinite articles.
But for now we have:
If you remember, el, la, los and las all mean "‘the".
un, una mean "one" or "a" and unos, unas mean ‘some’.
But what if I want others to know who the object or objects belong to.
That’s when possessive adjectives come in…
Por ejemplo:
Bueno. If those objects were more than one:
So when the object is one… the possessive adjective (mi, tu, or su) is also one.
Por ejemplo:
When the object is more than one, so is the possessive adjective:
So don’t think of them as ‘my dogs’ but ‘mys dogs’ or "yours dogs";
or "his's dogs", "hers's dogs". It's a little strange if you're translating them into English though.
Also notice that we have tu, tu perro. But we've also learned in the personal pronouns tú with an accent mark.
These are both pronounced the exact same way.
The only difference is that when the accent mark is there it means"you" and without an accent mark it's "your".
If tú comes before a verb or it's by itself it most likely refers to "you".
If it comes before a noun, it is most likely "your".
You also might notice the very last one "su" could refer to his, her, your.
So we have all these different meanings.
For example if I just say “su teléfono”… it could mean…
Pablo’s phone, Cecilia’s phone, Carmen’s phone, Juan’s phone, Your phone if I'm being
formal with you, his phone, her phone… etc..
For that reason in times of confusion we'll clarify with the the formula: object + de + person's name.
With this example:
Once we we know who we’re talking about, that's when we can say "su".
So how about I show you a picture of some various vocabulary and the person who it belongs to...
and you figure it out.
Por ejemplo:
You should have gotten "mi cuaderno".
Te toca.
You could first say "el gato del Sr. Jordan"
or once we know who we're talking about, "su gato"
Muy bien. That’s all for this video.
Let me know if you have any questions,comments, or suggestions about this video.
Gracias y adiós.