Possessives by person, and formal Ваш
Ten minutes on the topic's core paradigm: мој, твој, наш and ваш decline like adjectives, and so do његов, њен and њихов - but all three always agree with what is owned, never with the owner. Build sentences giving a son and a daughter their correct possessive, then meet the one capital-letter rule: Ваш only for formal address to one person, exactly like Ви.
The part of the grammar page this lesson drills — read it here, then use it.
Person-based possessives and agreement
Мој and твој decline exactly alike: мој/моја/моје and твој/твоја/твоје for masculine/feminine/neuter, моји/моје/моја and твоји/твоје/твоја in the plural. Наш and ваш follow the same pattern.
Његов (his/its), њен (her) and њихов (their) also decline like adjectives, agreeing with whatever is possessed: његов ауто, његова кућа, његово село (car/house/village) - the ending tracks the object, never the owner. Њен works the same way for a female possessor: њена кућа, њен ауто, њено писмо.
Addressing formally: ваш and Ваш
Exactly like ви/Ви in personal-pronouns-a1, ваш is capitalized Ваш when it formally addresses one respected person's possession: Ваш пасош, молим. (Your passport, please.) Lowercase ваш addresses more than one person, or one person informally.
| Person | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| ja | moj | moja | moje |
| ti | tvoj | tvoja | tvoje |
| on / ono | njegov | njegova | njegovo |
| ona | njen | njena | njeno |
| mi | naš | naša | naše |
| vi | vaš | vaša | vaše |
| oni / one / ona | njihov | njihova | njihovo |