🎒 Possessives: mon, ma, mes

📖 In short

To say “my book”, “your bag” or “his toys”, we put a little word before the noun that shows who it belongs to. It changes depending on the owner, and on the thing itself: masculine, feminine or plural.

🔎 The lesson

1 The table

Owner	Masculine	Feminine	plural
I	mon	ma	mes
You	ton	ta	tes
He / she	son	sa	ses
We	notre	notre	nos
You (several)	votre	votre	vos
They	leur	leur	leurs

2 Examples

mon livreMy book
ma trousseMy pencil case
mes crayonsMy pencils
notre maisonOur house
leurs jouetsTheir toys

3 son and sa: watch out!

In English we say “his house” or “her house”. But in French son and sa follow the thing, not the owner: la maison is feminine, so we say sa maison whether the house belongs to a boy or a girl.

Sami prend sa trousse.Sami takes his pencil case.
Lina prend son cartable.Lina takes her school bag.

4 mon before a vowel

Before a feminine noun starting with a vowel we say mon instead of ma to make it easier to say: mon amie, mon école.

📊 In a picture

The possessive agrees with the thing owned: mon livre, ma trousse, mes crayons

💡 Watch out!

notre and votre are the same for masculine and feminine.

🧩 Test yourself

1 “My pencil case” (la trousse):

2 Lina takes her book (le livre):

3 “My friend (a girl)” (une amie):

→ Place words: sur, sous, dans ← Demonstratives: ce, cette, ces