{"id":1352,"date":"2011-04-26T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2014-07-18T15:04:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:04:32","slug":"that%e2%80%99s-my-lunch-possessives-in-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/that%e2%80%99s-my-lunch-possessives-in-dutch\/","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s My Lunch! (Possessives in Dutch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work refrigerators \u2013 they are the bane of many people\u2019s life.\u00a0 No one wants to clean them and if you put something good in, you can almost guarantee it won\u2019t be coming out, in your hands at least.\u00a0 After today\u2019s post, you will be well equipped to exert your ownership on that tasty lunch, especially when you see someone else trying to sneak it away.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right…today we are talking about possession.<\/p>\n

Possessive Pronouns<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three weeks ago we talked about subject\u00a0pronouns<\/a>.\u00a0 In Dutch, a second set of pronouns are the possessive pronouns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
mijn<\/td>\nmy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
jouw\/je<\/td>\nyour (informal, singular)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
uw<\/td>\nyour (formal)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
zijn\/z\u2019n<\/td>\nhis, its<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
haar<\/td>\nher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ons, onze<\/td>\nour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
jullie<\/td>\nyour (plural)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
hun<\/td>\ntheir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It is important to notice that:<\/p>\n