A chant to help you remember French possessive adjectives. There are three possessive adjectives for each person/pronoun, which depend on the noun's gender (NOT the person to whom it belongs). e.g. mon ami (my male friend) ma table (my table) mes parents (my parents) mon, ma and mes all mean 'my' in English, but they change according to the gender and number of the words they are attached to: "ami", "table" and "parents". The word "ami" is masculine = we use "mon" The word "table" is feminine = we use "ma" The word "parents" is plural (gender doesn't really matter, at least not for the possessive adjective) = we use "mes" The only time step outside the gender is if the word starts with a VOWEL. If it starts with a vowel AND it is singular, you must always use the masculine possessive adjective. e.g. écharpe = scarf, and it is feminine but we do NOT say "ma écharpe" We say "Mon écharpe". We would also say "ton écharpe", "son écharpe" etc. If it starts with a vowel and is a plural word, we ALWAYS use the plural possessive adjective. Thus: "Mes écharpes", "Tes écharpes", "Nos écharpes" etc. To make it easy to decide which possessive adjective to use, follow this flowchart: 1. Is it plural or singular ? If it is plural, use the plural adjective (mes, tes, ses, nos, vos, leurs). If singular, continue to below. 2. Does it start with a vowel or silent h ? Use the masculine possessive adjective (mon, ton, son, notre, votre, leur). Otherwise, continue to below. 3. Is it a masculine or feminine word ? Use the corresponding possessive adjective. 4. If you don't know, guess. You might be right, and even if you are wrong, you can always learn for next time. Hope this helps !

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