Questions tagged [possessive]
Questions on the grammar of indicating a possessive relationship, such as the genetive, possessive pronouns, “von”, or “dem … sein” constructions.
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Possessive adjective used predicatively?
Is it correct to say that possessive adjective could never be used predicatively? That is, it could only be used attributively as complement of a head noun?
I ask this because I could not find any ...
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German possessive "s" or alternate Genitive construction?
On Steam today, there is a sale for Batman games. The sale headline is:
Feiern Sie Bruce Waynes Geburtstag
What is the "s" on "Waynes"? My assumption is that it is "der ...
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Vielen Dank für Ihr Verständnis und (Ihre) Unterstützung?
Ist es grammatikalisch und stilistisch korrekt, in so einem Satz den Possessivartikel wegzulassen, auch wenn es sich hier um Nomen mit verschiedenen Geschlechtern handelt?
Also:
Vielen Dank für Ihr ...
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How do I form the possessive with more than one proper name?
What's the correct way to put more than one name in the possessive? I want to talk about a wedding between Felix and Mareike. Are any of these correct?
Felixs und Mareikes Hochzeit
Felix' und ...
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Incorrect declension of possessive adjectives in DW manuscript?
In this text from DW, I noticed this sentence:
Deshalb fügen sich die meisten in ihr Leid an dieser Kreuzung, auch wenn den wenigsten einleuchtet, warum ihnen die Stadt das antut.
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Is this sentence grammatically correct?
Peters Sohns Lieblingstier ist die Giraffe
I'm studying with Duolingo, and from what I understand so far, the possessive form can be expressed with either "von" or "'s", and the ...
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The correct graph of possessive pronoun and adjectives
There are conflicting information in many parts of the internet, so I ask the question here. In this video by 'Your German Teacher', the following table is given for possesive articles:
Masculine:
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"Dein" ist mein ganzes Herz
Ich wollte fragen wie solche Formulierungen heißen: "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz," "Denn dein ist das Reich und die Kraft ..."
Ich verstehe die Sätze (Dein Herz, dein Reich statt dem ...
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Genitiv mit Possessivartikel
Sehen Sie sich bitte diese Sätze an:
Er hat in sein Vaters Bäckerei gearbeitet.
Er hat in seiner Vaters Bäckerei gearbeitet.
Welcher Satz ist richtig? Können Sie bitte ein bisschen erzählen? Ich ...
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Which possessive pronoun should follow 'Kind' (female) or 'Mädchen' - feminine or neuter? Das Mädchen hat ihren (oder seinen) Hut verloren? [duplicate]
Older texts would use the appropriate grammatical gender for possessive pronouns, eg,
'Das Weib hat seinen Hut verloren.'
Is this still the best usage, or should we now use the natural gender, ie,
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Masculine possessive adjectives ending in nominative
I am really confused if masculine nouns in nominative should take the -(e)r ending or not. Or when.
This article gives examples in nominative both with and without -er ending:
https://www.fluentu....
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ihr vs sein (possessive pronouns) [closed]
I have a simple question concerning the following sentences:
Die Katze trinkt ihr Wasser.
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Der Hund trinkt sein Wasser.
I would like to get a better understanding as to why "ihr" and "sein" ...
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Did German have a "possessive apostrophe"?
There is an old question asking whether contemporary German uses the apostrophe to mark possessive constructions in a way similar to contemporary English – or at least, that's the issue that all the ...
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Is this sentence from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung correct?
The two paragraphs below come from today’s online edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (emphasis mine):
Im Streit um den Brexit liegen die Nerven blank: Der britische
Außenminister ...
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Could someone explain how to form the genitive partitive in German? (Einer meiner wording)
I know that the translation to "one of my friends" is always formed by "ein-" as the indefinite pronoun meaning "one" and a possessive pronoun whatsoever in the genitive. I couldn't find however much ...
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