Example of possessive determiners in Spanish
The determinants are the words that precede the noun they determine. The determinants indicate the specificity of said noun and, together with it, form a noun phrase, following the scheme: "determiner + noun". Let us remember that, to speak of a noun phrase, it is only necessary that there is a name that acts as the syntactic nucleus of said phrase.
Determinants are called modifiers and are not always essential for a noun phrase to exist. For example, "the car" is a noun phrase formed by the determiner "the" and the core noun "car". However, we can only say "car" and we would also be facing a noun phrase. In this lesson from a TEACHER we will discuss some examples of possessive determiners in spanish.
The main function of determinants with respect to nouns is that of update the meaning of these since, it is not the same to say: "the car" than "a car" than "my car", since, although we are always talking about a car, the specific article "the" indicates that it is a vehicle that both sender and receiver know, while if using the indeterminate article "un" we are referring to a car that is alien to any of the participants in the speech.
Finally, the possessive first-person singular determiner "my" indicates that said car is mine and no one else's. Therefore, the determiners serve to specify the values of the noun they precede.
In this other lesson from a TEACHER we will discover the types of possessives that are in Castilian.
The possessive determiners refer to the possession or ownership of what the noun indicates; that is, they limit the meaning of the name by relating it directly to the possessor or owner of the name.
What is designated by the noun can belong to a single possessor, in which case the singular possessive determiners are used (My my your your your) or several possessors, in which case the plural possessive determiners (our, our, your, your, his / her).
It is important to always bear in mind that a possessive determiner such as "my" is not the same as a possessive pronoun such as "mine", since, although both indicate possession, they are different kinds of words that have different behaviors syntactic.
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