III. POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS.
[86]. These are strictly adjectives of the First and Second Declensions, and are inflected as such. They are—
| First Person. meus, -a, -um, my; noster, nostra, nostrum, our; | Second Person. tuus, -a, -um, thy; vester, vestra, vestrum, your; | |
Third Person. suus, -a, -um, his, her, its, their. | ||
1. Suus is exclusively Reflexive; as,—
pater līberōs suōs amat, the father loves his children.
Otherwise, his, her, its are regularly expressed by the Genitive Singular of is, viz. ejus; and their by the Genitive Plural, eōrum, eārum.
2. The Vocative Singular Masculine of meus is mī.
3. The enclitic -pte may be joined to the Ablative Singular of the Possessive Pronouns for the purpose of emphasis. This is particularly common in case of suō, suā; as, suōpte, suāpte.
IV. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS.