Possessive Pronouns
There are two types of possessive pronouns: full (stressed, free) and short (unstressed, clitic). The full pronouns agree in gender and number with the modified noun and are usually put before it, the short forms (they are identical to the short dative forms of the personal pronouns) are invariable and are put after the noun ("мъжът ми"). The stressed forms can be definite or indefinite, depending on whether the noun they modify is definite or indefinite, but only the first constituent of the definite noun phrase is used with an article ("моят мъж" or rarely "мъжът мой"). The full pronouns can also be used alone (without a noun) when its clear from the context which is the noun they refer to.
| Possessive pronouns | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural | Short form | |||||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||||
| Singular | First | мой | моят/моя | моя | моята | мое | моето | мои | моите | ми | |
| Second | твой | твоят/твоя | твоя | твоята | твое | твоето | твои | твоите | ти | ||
| Third | Masculine | негов | неговият/неговия | негова | неговата | негово | неговото | негови | неговите | му | |
| Feminine | неин | нейният/нейния | нейна | нейната | нейно | нейното | нейни | нейните | ѝ | ||
| Neuter | негов | неговият/неговия | негова | неговата | негово | неговото | негови | неговите | му | ||
| Plural | First | наш | нашият/нашия | наша | нашата | наше | нашето | наши | нашите | ни | |
| Second | ваш | вашият | ваша | вашата | ваше | вашето | ваши | вашите | ви | ||
| Third | техен | техеният/техния | тяхна | тяхната | тяхно | тяхното | техни | техните | им | ||
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