/mɔ̃/
Translation
my (masculine singular possessive)
Word origin
Masculine singular possessive determiner, from Latin meum, accusative of meus ('my, mine').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- meus
Grammar
Examples
Angleterre .
My brother has lived in England for ten years.
J' .
I forgot my phone at home.
, ' !
My God, you frightened me!
' .
My dog cries out as soon as someone arrives at the door.
lecture.
My view on this book changed a lot after a second reading.
Mon est le determinant possessif masculin singulier de la premiere personne (mon livre, mon appartement). Sa particularite est qu'il s'emploie aussi devant un nom feminin commencant par une voyelle ou un h muet : mon amie, mon erreur, mon histoire - et non ma amie qui creeraient un hiatus. Cela explique que mon ne signale pas automatiquement que le nom qui suit est masculin.
Les francophones utilisent parfois mon comme marque d'affection ou de respect devant certains titres militaires ou religieux (mon general, mon pere), meme lorsque la personne est feminine dans d'autres contextes. C'est une convention protocolaire figee, pas un accord grammatical.
Used in
Stories
(3)Grammar articles
(14)French Adjective Position: Default, BAGS, and the Meaning Shifts
Comparing French Adverbs: plus vite, le mieux, and the Irregulars
French Demonstrative Pronouns: celui, celle, ceux, celles
Reported Speech in French: Tense Backshift (dit que, a dit que)
French Imparfait: One Stem, One Set of Endings, One Irregular
French Negation Beyond pas: ne... que, ni... ni, aucun
French Noun Gender: Why Every Noun Is Le or La, and the Endings That Give It Away
French Possessive Pronouns: le mien, le tien, le sien, le nôtre, le vôtre, le leur
French Possessives: mon, ma, mes and the mon-Before-Vowel Trap
French Pronouns Y and EN: there, some, of it, of them
French Relative Pronouns: qui, que, dont, où and How to Glue Clauses Together
French Time Expressions: depuis, pendant, il y a and pour
The French Passive Voice (la voix passive)
French Word Order: SVO, the Object Pronoun Inversion, and Six Rules That Cover 90% of Sentences
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