Possessive pronouns

[LauraDemarch]

I just completed the possessive pronouns and within the session I just can't figure it out how I should use -e in the end of the pronoun. If anyone could comment, I would highly appreciate.

[LauraDemarch]

After some search, I think that the explanation could contain a table like this
Table: German possessive pronouns in the nominative case

Nominative - possessive refering to masculine/neuter - possessive refering to feminine
Ich - mein - meine
du - dein - deine
er - sein - seine
sie - ihr - ihre
es - sein - seine
wir - unser - unsere
ihr - euer - eure
Sie - ihr - ihre

[MaxBabel]

Possessive pronouns follow the pattern of the definite article (der, die, das...) for their endings. So they always have some ending.

Possessive adjectives follow the pattern of ein/kein.

[dsjanta]

German possessive pronouns and not only -e, but other endings, too. It all depends on the gender, case and number of the word that the subject possesses.

But in short, pronouns get -e before feminine nouns and nouns in plural.

For example:
mein Bruder (masculine) - my brother
mein Handy (neuter) - my cell phone

meine Schwester (feminine) - my sister
meine Uhr (feminine) - my clock

meine Eltern ( plural) - my parents
meine Sache (plural) - my stuff

Of course, all of these words get different endings in different cases - this only applies to feminine and plural nouns in Nominative and Accusative.

[AdamKean]

It's worth noting that there are possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives, or as this post calls them, dependent and independent possessive pronouns; which are two separate particles that decline differently.

• Possessive adjectives/dependent possessive pronouns decline like the indefinite article - ein

• (Independent) possessive pronouns decline like the definite article - der, die, das