Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns in English

The adjectives and pronouns are invariable, that is, there is only one form for the singular, plural, masculine and feminine. For example, "my" corresponds to the Italian: mio, mia, miei, mie.

Another important difference with most neo-Latin languages is that possessives do not take any article.

Moreover, the gender of the possessive of the third person singular depends on the possessor, e.g.,

Jane's brother is married to John's sister. --> Her brother is married to his sister
Mary and her car
John and his friends
the dog and its kennel.

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subject pronoun	Possessives
subject pronoun	adjective	italian	pronoun
I	my	mio	mine
you	your	tuo/vostro	yours
he	his	suo (di lui)*	his
she	her	suo (di lei)*	hers
it	its	suo (di esso)	--
we	our	nostro	ours
they	their	loro	theirs