How to use possessive pronouns in Afrikaans

How to use possessive pronouns in Afrikaans

You want to learn how to use possessive pronouns in Afrikaans? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Afrikaans lessons complete with useful examples. My book, your book, all our books... we make learning Afrikaans possessive pronouns easy.

Afrikaans possessive pronouns : my

Possessive pronouns are used in Afrikaans to describe possession or ownership. Just like English, Afrikaans has a set of possessive pronouns. The English word 'my' is a possessive pronoun in the first person singular. The Afrikaans word for 'my' is 'my'.

Examples

my vader
my father
my suster
my sister
my moeder
my mother
my broer
my brother
my vriend
my friend
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Step 9 : Afrikaans possessive pronouns

Possessive pronouns are used to describe ownership or possession. To start out, learn to use just two Afrikaans possessive pronouns. We suggest you learn my moeder, my vader and jou moeder, jou vader (my mother, my father, your mother, your father). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Afrikaans possessive pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned using these phrases by heart you can move on to the bonus Step 10 (Simple Afrikaans sentences).

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