Translation
my
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Examples
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My hand is big.
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I can see my hand.
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They are mine.
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My language is not your language.
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In my whole life I have never seen that.
is simply with the adjective ending -a, and it then behaves like any other adjective: it agrees with its noun in number and case, giving , , , . Every pronoun builds its possessive the same way, so once you have you also have , , , ĝia, and for free. Because it is a real adjective, it can stand on its own as "mine": .
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(7)Grammar articles
(33)Esperanto Suffixes -et-, -eg-, -ul-, -ist- and -an-
Esperanto Apposition: la urbon Parizon and the Echoed -n
Esperanto Compound Words: Reading Long Words From the Right
Esperanto Correlatives in Use: tiu kiu, tio kion and More
Esperanto Correlatives Table: All 45 Words on One Grid
Esperanto Demonstratives: Tiu, Tio and ĉi for This
Esperantismo and the Interna Ideo: What Esperanto Is For
Esperanto hodiaŭ: Where the Language Actually Lives
The Esperanto Calendar: Zamenhofa Tago and Other Festivals
Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
Esperanto Interjections: Ho, Nu, Ve and Sound Words
Esperanto Question Words: Kiu, Kio, Kie and the Ki- Table
Esperanto Body Parts: La Korpo, Head to Foot
Esperanto Grammar on One Page: All 16 Rules
Esperanto Countries and Nationalities: -io, -ujo and -ano
Esperanto Letter Writing: Register and Politeness
Esperanto Music and Films: What Is Worth Your Ears
Esperanto Punctuation, Spelling and Abbreviations
Esperanto Participles as Nouns: parolanto, venkinto
Esperanto Participles: -anta, -inta, -onta and What They Do
Esperanto Particles: ĉi tiu, ju...des, ajn and mem
The Esperanto Passive: -ata, -ita, -ota and esti
Personal Names in Esperanto: Johano, John or Ĝon?
Esperanto Personal Pronouns: mi, vi, li, ŝi and mia
Poetic Esperanto: Elision, Stress and What Verse Can Bend
Esperanto Prepositions: The Full List, With Examples
Esperanto Quantity Words: iom, multe, kelkaj and da
Esperanto Subordinate Clauses: ke, kiu, kiam and Commas
The Esperanto Article la: When to Use It and When Not
Tricky Esperanto Prepositions: je, po and Direction -n
Esperanto Verbs and Prepositions: Which One Each Verb Takes
Esperanto Affixes: The Full List of Prefixes and Suffixes
Esperanto Word Order: Emphasis, ne and ankaŭ
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 4: mia, ke, kiu and 11 more words.