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possessive pronoun

possessive pronoun noun: a pronoun which expresses possession.

Noun

possessive pronoun (plural possessive pronouns)

  1. A pronoun which expresses possession.
    • The possessive pronouns are, my, thy, his, her, its, our, your, their, own.1878, Geo. F. Holmes, A Grammar of the English Language, page 66

possessive pronoun meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Vietnamese

possessive pronoun in Tamil

உடைமை பகரப்பெயர், உடைமைமாற்றுப் பெயர்

possessive pronoun in Tagalog

pronoun which expresses possession
panghalip paari

possessive pronoun in Vietnamese

pronoun which expresses possession
đại từ sở hữu

Forms of possessive pronoun

pluralpossessive pronouns

Words formed from possessive pronoun

Questions about possessive pronoun

What does possessive pronoun mean?
Possessive pronoun means a pronoun which expresses possession.
What is possessive pronoun in Tamil?
Possessive pronoun in Tamil is உடைமை பகரப்பெயர், உடைமைமாற்றுப் பெயர். See Possessive pronoun meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is possessive pronoun?
Possessive pronoun is a noun.
What is the plural of possessive pronoun?
The plural of possessive pronoun is possessive pronouns.

Words near possessive pronoun in the dictionary

  1. possessive adjectives
  2. possessive case
  3. possessive cases
  4. possessive determiner
  5. possessive determiners
  6. possessive pronoun
  7. possessive pronouns
  8. possessive suffix
  9. possessive suffixes
  10. possessively
  11. possessiveness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: possessive pronoun (page history and authors); possessive pronoun (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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