What are possessive article in German?

Answer 1

German has three definite articles: der, die, das (bestimmter Artikel) and two indefinite articles: ein, eine (unbestimmter Artikel).

These articles may be slightly altered as a result of the 4 "cases" - Nominative (subject), Genitive (possessive), Dative (indirect object) and Accusative (direct object) giving the following variations:

die - der

der - des - dem - den

das - des - dem

eine - einer

ein - eines - einem - einen (last form only used with masculine nouns)

Answer 2

Yes; which article is used depends on the gender of the noun (masculine, feminine, neuter) and the case of the noun in the sentence (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive).

Answer 3

In German there are the three articles "der" (for masculine substantives), "die" (for feminine substantives) and "das" (for neutral substantives; neuter) for the English article "the". Which article is given to which word depends on the gender of the word. For someone being English this may be hard to understand, I think, but in German each word has its own gender.

For instance:

der Hase - the rabbit ("Hase" is masculine)

die Frau - the woman ("Frau" is feminine)

das Haus - the house ("Haus" is neuter)

But beware: The articles can change according to the case of the word.

For more information, have a look at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_articles

Answer 4

Definite:

- der (for masculine noun) > der Mann (the man);

- die (for feminine noun) > der Frau (the woman);

- das (for neutral noun) > das Auto (the car);

IN PLURAL: die (masc., fem. or neutral)

Indefinite:

- ein (masc.) > ein guter Hund (a good dog);

- eine (fem.) > eine schöne Stadt (a beautiful town/city);

- ein (neut.) > ein kleines Land (a small country);

IN PLURAL: einige (masc., fem. or neutral).

Anyway these forms are used for subject case!

Answer 5

1 person - mein/e (male/female)

2 person - dein/e

3 person (male) - sein/e

3 person (female) - ihr/e

1 person pl. - unser/e

2 person pl. - euer / eure

3 person pl. - ihr/ihre