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Possessive Pronoun

A possessive pronoun is a word used to tell the reader who owns someone or something.

A possessive pronoun is translated as my, your, his, hers, its, our, or their.

I was surprised that possessive pronouns are used only for ownership when the genetive case has so many uses. I wondered if we needed to add more uses. Also English possessive pronouns show up on the pages for both Possessive Pronouns and Personal Pronouns. So I wondered what is the difference between a Personal Pronoun with Genitive case and a Possessive Pronoun. So I looked into it and found this.

Possessive pronouns in Greek can have other cases. (I see different forms of ἐμός 'mine' in BibleHub. https://biblehub.com/greek/1699.htm)

G1699 ἐμός 'mine' John 17:10 twice
PoSsessive pronoun | First | Singular | Nominative | Plural | Neuter
G2251 hēmeterōn 'ours' 1 John 2:2
PoSsessive pronoun | First | Plural | Genitive | Plural | Feminine
G4674 σός 'yours' John 17:10 (twice)
PoSsessive pronoun | Second | Singular | Nominative | Plural | Neuter

The OGNT morphology table has no third person Possessive pronouns or 2nd person plural possessive pronouns.

Would it be good to change the list of English translations in the second sentence?
A possessive pronoun is translated into English as my, mine, our, ours, your, or yours.

# Possessive Pronoun A possessive pronoun is a word used to tell the reader who owns someone or something. A possessive pronoun is translated as **_my_**, **_your_**, **_his_**, **_hers_**, **_its_**, **_our_**, or **_their_**. ------- I was surprised that possessive pronouns are used only for ownership when the genetive case has so many uses. I wondered if we needed to add more uses. Also English possessive pronouns show up on the pages for both Possessive Pronouns and Personal Pronouns. So I wondered what is the difference between a Personal Pronoun with Genitive case and a Possessive Pronoun. So I looked into it and found this. Possessive pronouns in Greek can have other cases. (I see different forms of ἐμός 'mine' in BibleHub. https://biblehub.com/greek/1699.htm) * G1699 ἐμός 'mine' John 17:10 twice PoSsessive pronoun | First | Singular | Nominative | Plural | Neuter * G2251 hēmeterōn 'ours' 1 John 2:2 PoSsessive pronoun | First | Plural | Genitive | Plural | Feminine * G4674 σός 'yours' John 17:10 (twice) PoSsessive pronoun | Second | Singular | Nominative | Plural | Neuter The OGNT morphology table has no third person Possessive pronouns or 2nd person plural possessive pronouns. Would it be good to change the list of English translations in the second sentence? A possessive pronoun is translated into English as **my**, **mine**, **our**, **ours**, **your**, or **yours**.

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