Master German Possessive Pronouns in Just 20 Minutes

Welcome to German with Joe and Berlin. And in today's lesson, we'll be doing the possessive pronouns. So, previously in the pre lessons, we have already covered the first two grammar tables that is personal pronouns, the articles and then we went on to understand the verbs and how to use the verbs. Now, we'll be coming to the third most important grammar table. As I mentioned, the possessive pronouns. What are possessive pronouns? Let's find out. In English you say my, your, his, her, its, our, your, they are, and your again or formal. Yes. Now in do we have instead of my, you need to remember mine. Yes. Your becomes thine. His becomes Z. So till now it's quite rhyming. Mine, thine, Z. Okay. Then it comes to her, it's and its it's again z. Yes. So his and its have the same possessive pronoun. Okay. Our is un your plural is o. Third person plural is and your formal in English it looks the same like this one. Yes. Or this one. In German it's perfect. Now we need to memorize these possessive pronouns. I'll give you tips and tricks to remember them as we move forward. Now the next question comes is how to use possessive pronouns. Now we must remember that possessive pronouns replace articles. Yes, for example, instead of saying I go to the friend, yes, I can say I go to my friend. I replaced the with my. So in German when we do that my will get the ending of the like we have learned previously. Let's have a look here. For example, whenever we use any of these possessive pronouns which I have written down on the right. Yes. Just like we learned here. Mine thine design on oa. You see I have left open um couple of brackets here which are to show that these possessive pronouns are not to be used alone. They basically borrow the endings of the articles. Perfect. Now we already know that which are the endings which the articles give. All the endings basically except there, thus and thus. So these are the three articles which do not give their endings. All the other articles give their endings. Yes. So we'll be using these articles to determine the endings of these possessive pronoun. Yes. For example, if you look at it, it'll be mine. Yes. Minor. Mine. Minor. Yes. Mine. Minor. Mine. Minor. Yes. My nem my nare my nem my nen perfect so you saw that I use this particular possessive pronoun and I put together the endings of the articles yes when we make the sentence we'll understand it even better yes which ending to use when and similarly we could do for the others let me show it for you to you for thine as well thine will become thine article doesn't give its ending diner thine again this doesn't give its ending. Dina Dina D doesn't give its ending. Dina Dm Der Dm. Fantastic. Yes. So, similarly we could do for the others as well and more clarity will come when we attempt certain questions and certain answers. Okay. So, let's move forward and let's see what do we have here. Now this is again a consolidated table. Yes, which we'll be using for our future references. And in the meanwhile there is a little example here. We can have a look. Now the sentence says ish bazooka then uncle. Yes I visit the uncle. Ish is who? Bazooka is the verb. Then uncle is basically whom. Yes. We go to whom. Uncle is masculine. So we say then uncle. Perfect. So it's then uncle. Now instead of saying I visit the uncle, I could say I visit my uncle. So what will we do? We'll replace basically then with the possessive pronoun mine. So we'll say ish bazooka mine. We'll borrow the ending of en my n. Perfect. Uncle visit my uncle. This was just an idea of how the articles are replaced with the possessive pronoun and how the articles give the endings to their possessive pronoun and the endings which are given again are highlighted here. Yes. So except they are thus thus all the articles give the endings. So once again this is a consolidated table. We have added this last column of possessive pronoun. Now it has your personal pronouns ishu zs via z comma z your articles from which the third person pronouns are derived. Yes you have the verb conjugations here you have the personal pronouns and tiff in the end you have your possessive pronouns. So uh with the help of these possessive pronouns we'll be able to create any sentence on the right. Yes. And a quick note now if you look at the possessive pronouns here mine thine zine o ear you'll see there are too many ears yes for one to remember so let's say how many there are there's one 2 3 so this ear means her this ear means their big ear with a capital I means your formal how to remember well I'll give you a quick note if you look at the personal pronouns like in the first column ish du zs via z comma z perfect when you look at these uh personal pronouns I would ask you to find out how many z's are there so we'll find out there is first z which means she there is the second z which means they and there is the third z which means you formal you. Perfect. So with that in mind, I could basically tell you that all the Z's when changed into possessive pronoun, they become. Huh? Perfect. For example, Z is she, it becomes. Yes. Z is they, it becomes. Z is your. You, it becomes as well with capital I. Perfect. Let make this capital. All right. And this basically that's the idea is possessive pronoun is mine. Do possessive pronoun is thine. Zas is zine. Via is o. Z, z is yes. So these are the respective personal pronouns and these are the respective possessive pronouns. Okay. Now, with that in mind, I would suggest let's attempt a few questions on our right and see if we can use the possessive pronouns and translate the sentences into German. So, let's do the first sentence together. The man visits his friend. So, who visits? Let's go to who. That's nominative. Yes. So, we'll say who. It's the man. Man is masculine. So, we'll say they are. And we'll write here they are man. The verb is bazooken. We'll conjugate it for third person. Yes, it'll be bazook. Perfect. Their man bazook his friend. Now we know that the basic idea is that the possessive pronouns replace the articles. So basically if I would have said the man visits the friend it would be the man visits their man whom and friend is masculine. So I would have said din but I will not say din. I need a possessive pronoun here which is his. So I'll go to possessive pronouns. I'll find out his mine. Thine zine perfect zine. So here is z mine. Zine. So I'll use zed. I'll write here z and I'll give it the endings of din that is zen front. Perfect. The man bazut z and front zupa. Let's forward. The father gives to his son his computer. So who gives once again? Father is masculine. We'll go to their zakman. They are. So let's write here they are fart the verb is to give in German gabin we'll conjugate it for third person we'll remove the e and add a t there is a e in the verb we'll change it to i it'll become gip very good their father g then to his son to whom yes so first we'll just say to the son so son is masculine we'll go to them and we don't require Same as such we require the possessive pronoun which is his. So his is once again mine zine. We'll pick up zine and we'll give it the ending of d. Yes because z is replacing them. So I'll write kip zam which means to his zm zone. Yes his computer. What what does he give? Computer is masculine. Then computer. We don't need then. We need possessive pronoun. That is his. His his is mine. Thine zine. We'll pick up z and give it the ending of e n. Perfect. Zen computer. Fantastic. Okay. The teacher invites her children. Okay. Moving forward. Teacher invites children. So basically who invites? teacher is feminine. So, we'll go to the thas. It'll be the Yes. And I'll write the Okay, make it bigger. The very good. The verb is to invite. In German, it's in laden. Yes, if we can see it here. Okay, I think we can see it now. Ein laden. Now, we'll pick up in laden and we need to remember this is a two-part verb. It is a separable verb. It has an extra part in which we do not use in conjugation. Put it at the end of the sentence. We'll just conjugate for laden. Perfect. So laden will be conjugated for third person. Yes. The larone singular. Third person singular. So let's conjugate laden. It has a r in it. I will change to a. It'll become we'll remove the e and add a d. Let perfect the letter in let. Fantastic. Her children whom does she invite children is plural. We'll go right down the Kinder. But we don't need definita article. We need possessive pronoun. What is her? Let's find out. So basically she is Z. All the Z's are. So her is fantastic. So we'll put here and give it the ending of the which is e. So kind and we'll finish the sentence by completing the second part of the verb which was. So I write I the teacher invites her children. Perfect. Now moving forward we'll go to the fourth sentence. The principal and the teachers take from their students their gifts. Okay. So let's find out what's happening here. The principal is known as shoe lighter. So it's who shoe lighter is masculine there. So we'll write here the let's make space here. Their sho lighter. Very good. and the teachers and in German is un pretty similar un who the teachers teachers this time is plural so I'll say the yes the and it looks the same even in the plural form the the shoe lighter take what is the verb to take non yes so we'll conjugate non for third person plural because they are third person plural the teacher and the principal. So basically they yes we'll conjugate it'll be the same basic form of the verb that is non. So we'll write it the same lighter non. Now from their students from whom? If you remember is also from whom. So we'll find out from their students. students is plural. We'll go right down to plural. It's then. Yes, students is studenten. So then, studenten, but we do not need the definita article. Rather, we require the possessive pronoun. We require how to say there. How to say there? They is Z. All the Z's become. So there is. We'll write down here. And we'll borrow the ending of which is e n student what. So what do they take from the students? It's they are gifts. Gifts is plural. We'll pick up the article the. Yes. The gishanka. But we don't need the definita article. We need again possessive pronoun which is. Yes. As we had learned is there. So we'll write here and we'll give it the ending of the which becomes perfect. So basically the sentence says so the teacher and the principles take from their students their gifts. Okay, moving forward. The boss calls his employee. Okay. So, what is the boss? Let's find out. It's who? Boss is masculine. They are. So, we'll choose they and boss is called chef. So, their chef. Perfect. The verb to call is unrofen. It's again a separable verb. We have two parts of the verb un and rofen. Yes. And we'll conjugate the main verb which is rofen. for third person. Yes. So it'll become the chef. Ruth. Perfect. Now the question is whom? It's the employee. It's masculine. It's ungishal. 10 means employee. But we don't need then they need the possessive pronoun that is his. What is his? Mine. Thine. Zine. Yes. We'll pick up Z. Write here Z and give it the ending of with a E N. Zen anish. Perfect. And we'll end the verb with an. Yes, that completes the verb. The chef roof designed anish an boss calls his employee. Fantastic. Well done. Okay, now I'll do one more with you and that's basically the children listen to the pianist. Yes. Now the verb is to listen. We'll come to it but first the children. So who listens to the beest? It's the children. It's plural. So we'll go to the and we'll write here the kinder. Kinder means children. Listen. The verb is. It's again a two-part verb. We'll not conjugate sue. We'll only conjugate hurin and we'll put sue in the end. So hin. We'll be conjugating it for plural. Yes. So it'll be in its basic form. And we'll write the same as it's written hurin. Perfect. Kinder hurin. Now the question is to whom do the children hear or to whom do the children listen? Yes. So basically it's pianist to the pianist. Pianist is masculine. So it'll be them pianist to the pianist. But we don't require the definita article. We require the possessive pronoun they. What is there? They is Z. All the possessive pronouns, all the Z's become. Their becomes. So I'll write here. And then I'll borrow the ending of the definite article here. E mist. And I'll end the sentence with the prefix sue coming in the end. Sue. Perfect. All right. So these were some examples of how to go about dealing with the uh translations from German to English when it comes to possessive pronoun. So I would say you practice by yourself a few questions the next questions. Yes. And we'll meet us back in the next lesson and we'll do some special sentences possessive pronouns. So until then this is John Berlin signing off. See you in the next lesson.