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Nouns and cases

der Possessivartikel

In English: possessive article (my, your, his...)

A word in front of a noun that says who owns it: mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer, Ihr. The stem depends on the owner; the ending depends on the noun that follows and is the same as for ein and kein.

Example: Das ist meine Schwester mit ihrem Hund.

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das Possessivpronomen der unbestimmte Artikel der Negativartikel (kein)

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