Possessive Adjective

Question 1

First person plural

Answer 1

Noster, nostra, nostrum

“Our”

Question 2

Second person singular

Answer 2

Tuus -a -um

“Your”

Question 3

Second person plural

Answer 3

Vester, vestra, vestrum

“Your”

Question 4

What do they agree with

Answer 4

They are adjectives so they agree with the thing possessed in gender, number, case

Question 5

I see your brother

Answer 5

Tuum fratrem video

Question 6

We see our mother

Answer 6

Nostram matrem videmus

Question 7

He hates my authority

Answer 7

Meum imperium odit

Question 8

What are they for

Answer 8

Strictly emphatic or to clarify an unclear point

Question 9

I see (my) father

Answer 9

Patrem (meum) video

Clarifies who the father belongs to

Question 10

Third person singular

Answer 10

Suus -a -um

Only used reflexively, otherwise “is, ea, id” in the genitive case is used
- eius, eius, eius

Question 11

Third person plural

Answer 11

Suus -a -um

Only used reflexively, otherwise “is, ea, id” is used otherwise
- eorum, earum, eorum

Question 12

He/she hates his/her own authority

Answer 12

Suum imperium odit

Question 13

They hate their own authority

Answer 13

Suum imperium oderunt

Question 14

Eius imperium odit

Answer 14

He/she hates the authority of him/her/it/this one/that on

He/she hates his/her/its (another person) authority

Question 15

Eorum imperium oderunt

Answer 15

They hate the authority of them/of these/those men

They hate their (different group) authority

Question 16

How to express possession

Answer 16

Genitive of the personal pronoun is never used

To show it in 1st/2nd persons the possessive adjectives must be used

Question 17

First person singular

Answer 17

Meus -a -um

“My”