How to Use Possessive Adjectives in Portuguese - Focus

Learn about possessive adjectives

Lesson Transcript

Hi, everyone! I'm Paloma.

Oi gente, aqui é a Paloma.

Welcome to the Whiteboard lessons.

In this lesson

you will going to learn how to use possessive objectives in Portuguese.

Let's get started!

Let's look at the sentence pattern.

This pattern will be the structure that all our dialogues will follow.

So the pattern is

definite article + possessive adjective + noun

For example

definite article

Seu

possessive adjective

E-mail, por favor

And that's the noun, email.

O seu e-mail, por favor

The

Seu

Your

E-mail

E-mail, por favor

Please

O seu e-mail, por favor

Your e-mail, please

So, in Portuguese very common to have the article before the possessive adjective.

So, Let's see all the forms we have in Portuguese.

We have the masculine and feminine form.

And we have the first person, eu, I.

second person singular, tu, you,

and the 3rd person or "você" o seu, ele e ela, he and she.

For example, first person "eu"

o meu

mine

or "a minha"

Mine too.

The gender varies depending on the noun it is following.

So, I'm a girl, but I can use only "o meu",

because I'm talking, for example, about a book.

That is masculine in Portuguese, for example,

o meu livro,

my book.

But livro is masculine, that's why we have "o meu livro".

Next, we have

o teu and "a tua"

o teu e "a tua".

And the last one singular person singular

o seu and "a sua".

o seu e "a sua".

O meu livro, o teu livro, o seu livro.

A minha casa, a tua casa, a sua casa.

So, in Brazil it is very common to use "o seu" and "a sua".,

because we use "você" more commonly.

But you can also hear "o teu" and "a tua", and both are correct.

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