Hon dansar med sin man. She is dancingwith her (own) husband.

• Both the subject and the so called reflexive possessive pronoun belong together in
  this sentence. Marked with black. Hon is a personal pronoun, while sin is reflexive
  possessive pronoun for en-nouns.

En man – sin man

Hon har glömt sitt paraply idag. She has forgotten her (own) umbrella today.

• Both the subject and the so called reflexive possessive pronoun belong together in
  this sentence. Marked with black. Hon is a personal pronoun, while sitt is
  reflexive possessive pronoun for ett-nouns.

Ett paraply – sitt paraply

Hon dansar med hennes man. She dancing with her (someone else´s) man.

• In this case the personal pronoun hon doesn´t belong together with the possessive pronoun hennes i.e. the information is not about one but two people. Not that “hennes” is not reflexive! It refers to another person.

Hon har glömt hennes paraply. She has forgotten her (other person´s, friend´s, collegue´s) umbrella.

*When you use possessive pronouns, you should remember that the nouns are ALWAYS!
in indefinite form after them. Both in singular and plural.

for example: min katt (en katt) eng. my cat , mitt barn (ett barn) my child, mina katter eng. my cats, mina barn eng. my children.

Personliga                    Possessiva Pronomen                       Reflexiva Possesiva Pronomen

Pronomen       en-ord               ett-ord           plural                     en-ord           ett-ord           pl.