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Possession and Belonging

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10 exemples
1 min
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Learn how to define ownership and identify personal items in Russian effortlessly.

  • Identify gender-based possessive pronouns.
  • Apply possessive forms to common everyday objects.
  • Distinguish between personal and third-person possessive structures.
Claim your world with Russian possessives!

Ce que tu vas apprendre

Using possessive pronouns to indicate ownership. Understanding the relationship between the owner and the object.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

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    By the end you will be able to: Use мой, твой, and его correctly with masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns.

Exemples clés (2)

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Это мой новый айфон.

This is my new iPhone.

Pronoms possessifs russes : Mon, Ton, Son (мой, твой, его)
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Где твоя машина?

Where is your car?

Pronoms possessifs russes : Mon, Ton, Son (мой, твой, его)

Conseils et astuces (1)

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The 'Lazy Three' Shortcut

If you're unsure about gender, try to rephrase your sentence to use 'his', 'her', or 'their' (его, её, их). These never change, so you can't get the ending wrong!
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Pronoms possessifs russes : Mon, Ton, Son (мой, твой, его)

Vocabulaire clé (6)

мой my твой your (informal) его his друг friend книга book телефон phone

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smartphone

Sharing Personal Items

Review Summary

  • Possessive + Noun

Erreurs courantes

Телефон is masculine, so it must use 'мой', not the feminine 'моя'.

Wrong: Моя телефон
Correct: Мой телефон

The word 'его' is invariable and never takes endings.

Wrong: Егоя книга
Correct: Его книга

Книга is feminine, so you must use the feminine form 'твоя'.

Wrong: Твой книга
Correct: Твоя книга

Next Steps

Fantastic work today! You are building a solid foundation for your Russian journey. Keep practicing and stay curious!

Label items in your house with sticky notes using Russian possessives.

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Pratique rapide (3)

Find and fix the mistake.

Find and fix the mistake:

Это мой пицца.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: Это моя пицца.
Пицца is feminine, so the masculine 'мой' must be changed to 'моя'.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Pronoms possessifs russes : Mon, Ton, Son (мой, твой, его)

Fill in the blank with the correct form of 'my' (мой/моя/моё).

Это ____ (my) книга.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: моя
Книга (book) is a feminine noun ending in -а, so it requires the feminine possessive 'моя'.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Pronoms possessifs russes : Mon, Ton, Son (мой, твой, его)

Which sentence is grammatically correct?

Choose the correct way to say 'This is our house':

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: Это наш дом.
Дом (house) is masculine, so it needs the masculine form 'наш'.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Pronoms possessifs russes : Mon, Ton, Son (мой, твой, его)

Score: /3

Questions fréquentes (2)

No. The gender of the speaker doesn't matter. Only the gender of the noun you own matters. A woman says мой телефон because 'телефон' is masculine.
You use его, the same word for 'his'. Russian doesn't have a separate word for 'its' in this context.
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