8. Possessive and Demonstrative Pronouns

These pronouns follow the same rules as adjectives, declining for gender and case to match the nouns they modify, see Chapter 5 for more details on adjectives.

8.1 Possessive pronouns

The first person singular possessive pronoun мой, ‘my’, declines as follows.

The second person singular possessive pronoun твой, ‘your’, declines as follows.

The first person plural possessive pronoun наш, ‘our’, declines as follows.

The second person plural possessive pronoun ваш, ‘your’, declines as follows.

8.2 Third person possessive pronouns

The words яго́ны, ‘his’, е́йны, ‘her’, and і́хны, ‘their’, are the most common way of indicating possession. They decline like normal adjectives and their usage is extremely common, however there are some who feel that their usage is colloquial and that possession should be indicated by preceding the noun with the genitive form of the third person pronoun.

8.3 The reflexive pronoun

The pronoun свой roughly translates as one’s own, and declines as follows.

8.4 The interrogative possesive pronoun

The pronoun чый roughly translates as ‘whose’, and declines as follows.

8.5 The demonstrative pronouns

The pronouns гэ́ты, ‘this’, and той, ‘that’, decline as follows.

The pronoun гэ́ны, ‘that’, declines just like гэ́ты. It is not very common.

8.6 The pronoun

уве́сь

The pronoun уве́сь, ‘all’, declines as follows.