possessives
Words showing ownership
Possessives are words or forms indicating ownership or association.
In English, nouns take an apostrophe: the dog's collar, James's car, the children's toys.
Pronouns have dedicated possessive forms: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
The possessive also marks other close relationships beyond ownership: my sister, her birthday, the city's mayor.
Mark showing ownership
- genitiveCase expressing ownership
- pronounNoun's grammatical replacement
- itsNeuter possessive pronoun
- whosePossessive interrogative pronoun
her · his · our · their · my · your · inflection · determiner
Something owned or inherent
- titleFormal honorific or name
- deedWritten property conveyance
- assetsOwned items of value
- estateProperty and grounds
holdings · tenure · acquisition · belongings · proprietorship · dominion · stewardship · freehold
Resentful desire for another's advantages
- territorialDefensive about owned space
- clingyTending to hold on
- controllingExerting authority over others
- protectiveServing to guard
guarded · obsessive · insecure · covetous · domineering · restrictive · suspicious · withholding
apostrophe
Mark showing ownership
whose · her · his · our · their · my · your · inflection · determiner · modifier
property
Something owned or inherent
estate · holdings · tenure · acquisition · belongings · proprietorship · dominion · stewardship · freehold · leasehold
jealousy
Resentful desire for another's advantages
- territorialDefensive about owned space
- clingyTending to hold on
- controllingExerting authority over others
protective · guarded · obsessive · insecure · covetous · domineering · restrictive · suspicious · withholding · smothering
family
Related people together
bloodline · clan · tribe · inheritance · legacy · heirloom · birthright · roots · tradition · customs
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- Hungariangoulash, paprika, Budapest, Magyar, puszta
- determinersa, an, the, this, that
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possessivesnominatives
Grammatical subject forms
plurals · indefinites · subject pronouns · object pronouns · objectives
possessivespublic domain
Unprotected creative works
commons · unowned · ownerless · collective
- possessive formShows ownership grammatically
- possessive pronounsWords denoting belonging
- possessive caseForm showing ownership
- possessive nounNoun showing ownership