The full set of Swedish possessives

So the possessive pronouns are the things we've been looking at so far. It's these words that we use to describe something that we either like own or we have some sort of relation to. So for instance, we say my car, my house, and so forth. And of course, as you've noticed, it differs depending on if it's a ett or en word. How would you say my, as in my car or my house?

There's two options.

Min or mitt.

Okay, to say your, we already know one of them, ditt. Like ditt hus, because hus is one of those words that begin with ett. How do you think you would say the other type of your? We haven't learnt this before, but I think you can figure it out because the other one is a en word.

Din. So you have min and din.

You use those if you have a word that's common. Most of the words in Swedish take on en, and in that case you say min or you say din. If the words, however, take on ett, then you need to say mitt or ditt.

Okay, so do you remember how to say his or her?

Hans, hennes.

And these, they don't differ depending on what the word takes on. So it's always hans or hennes. There's no more option. To say its in Swedish, you would say dess. Dess.

To say your for a lot of people, you have to say either er or you say ert.

So er bil would be your car, speaking to a group of people.

Ert hus would be your house, once again speaking to a group of people. So it depends on if the word takes on "ett" or if it's a common word that takes on "en". To say "their", "their" as in "their house": deras, deras.

And this one also, luckily, doesn't change. Always "deras".

Finally, we have "our". And to say "our", like "our car", once again, we have two options: "vår" for words that are common, like "en": "vår bil", "our car", "vår värld", "our world".

However, if the word is "ett", "ett", then we have to say "vårt". So "vårt hus", "our house", "vårt tåg", "our train", and so forth.

So how did you say "a house"?

Ett hus.

So how would you say "it is our house"?

Det är vårt hus.

"Vårt" because "hus" is "ett hus". "We have a car, it's our car." So how do you say that?

So "we have" is "vi har", because "have" is "att ha", "to have". Vi har en bil. Det är vår bil. And it's "vår", not "vårt" with an -rt in the end. No, just an r, because this is once again a common word, "en" word.

And remember, in Swedish sometimes you can omit the indefinite, so you can say "vi har bil". Har ni bil? Vi har bil.

So now let's try to say, no, it's their car. It is their car.

To say their, of course, the word was deras.

Nej, det är deras bil. Nej, det är deras bil. So how do you say, it is our train?

And the word for train was tåg, ett tåg, a train. So how do you say, it's our train?

Det är vårt tåg.

Det är vårt tåg.

Is it her phone? If you want to ask that question, how would you ask that question? Is it her phone?

Är det hennes telefon?

So let's do a quick recap of these pronouns. To say my, we had two options, min or mitt. To say your, we had two options, din or ditt, depending on en or ett. His or her became hans, hennes.

Its, to say that, you would say dess. Dess. Like saying its effect, you would say dess effekt. Dess effekt.

Your for a lot of people, for a group of people, er or you can say ert. Once again depending on if it's ett or en.

To say their, deras.

And finally our, where you also have two options.

Vår and of course vårt.