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Bonjour! Today I would like to share possessive adjectives with you, and add in a bit of an explanation to it. Note that I´m a beginner, I simply made this post for my own revision and understandably explained it.

On y va!

As you probably already know, there are two genders in French - masculine et feminine.

Mon, Ma, Mes - they all mean my

ton, ta, tes - all mean your

son, sa, ses - her/his (i´ll explain this further below)

notre, notre, nos -our

votre, votre, vos - your

leur, leur, leurs - their

So now, we know what they are. But it is a bit confusing, isn´t it? 

In French, we choose which possessive adjective we will use according to the object. For example:

This is her dog. (in english we say her dog, because the subject is female(a girl owns that dog, that´s why))

However, in French we would say:

C´est son chien (chien is masculine, so we use son, not sa.)

More sample sentences:

These are his books.

Ce sont ses livres. (livres - books, which is in plural, so we use ses.)

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My table.

Ma table (la table est feminin)

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My book. 

Mon livre. (le livre - masculine)

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This is her brother.

C´est son frére. (frére - masculine.)

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This is our cat.

C´est leur chat.

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His sister is pretty.

Sa soeur est jolie.

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These are our pens.

Ce sont nos stylos.

Exception when mon, ton, son  is used for f.

When the object starts with a vowel, (or a mute h) we use an alternative which ends with a consonant.

This is her friend.

C´est son amie. (amie-f so logically we would use sa, but amie starts with a vowel.) (ami- m, son still stays)

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My school.

Mon école. (école-f, but starting with a vowel so we use mon instead of ma.)

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Your clock.

Ton horloge. (horloge-f, but starting with silent h, (we don´t pronounce the h)