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Hello and welcome to my channel, Grammar Lesson number six. Today we're going to talk about um number six. Today we're going to talk about um personal pronouns and possessive pronouns. I decided to compare them for you to be easier to
Russian grammar lesson 6: compares personal and possessive pronouns, focusing on masculine possessives (мой, твой, его, наш, ваш, их) with examples.
Key Takeaways
- Possessive pronouns must agree in gender with the noun they modify.
- мой, твой, наш, ваш are used with masculine nouns here; его, её, их remain unchanged.
- Formal ваш differs from informal твой, which is used with one familiar person.
- Consistent pronunciation practice and repetition are recommended for mastery.
What the video covers
- Introduces the lesson comparing personal pronouns (я, ты, он, мы, вы, они) with their possessive counterparts.
- Explains that possessive pronouns answer the question чей (whose) and must agree in gender with the following noun.
- Covers мой (my), used with masculine nouns, with examples like мой папа and мой учитель.
- Explains that твой (your, informal singular) is used with masculine nouns, e.g. твой доктор, твой телефон.
- Notes that его (his) and её (her) never change form regardless of the noun's gender.
- Introduces наш (our), used only with masculine nouns, with examples such as наш словарь and наш зонт.
- Explains ваш (your, formal/plural) and its use in formal situations, e.g. ваш банк, ваш официант.
- Covers их (their), which never changes across genders, with examples like их окно.
- Encourages learners to practice pronunciation by shadowing the instructor and reviewing material repeatedly.
- Previews the next lesson, which will cover feminine possessive pronouns.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and lesson overview
- 01:08Practice guidance and pronunciation
- 02:00Personal vs possessive pronouns explained
- 04:00Possessive pronouns: мой, твой, его, её
- 08:00Possessive pronouns: наш and ваш
- 12:00Examples with masculine nouns
- 18:00Formal vs informal usage and further examples
- 21:50Closing remarks and preview of next lesson
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Speaker A
understand them. And today we're going to talk about um about masculine possessive pronouns in masculine. What does it mean possessive? It means my, yours. So it's about possession, right?
Speaker A
Okay. Let's um start personal pronouns. Personal personal means I, me, you, they, he, and so on. personal pronouns, pronouns and possessive pronouns. My, your, our, versus possessive possessive pronouns pronouns. Today we're going to talk about masculine. We will write a lot of
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examples and to make sure by the end of the lesson you will understand this topic. Uh, if you don't understand, don't worry. just follow the course continue because I will go back we will review we will talk uh about these
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things again and again so don't worry it [sighs] uh um let's start with personal pronouns ya ya means I or me ya ya ya I or me.
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Yeah. If you know this topic, practice your pronunciation. Stay here with us and practice your pronunciation.
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Try to shadow uh my pronunciation. Practice with me out loud. It will increase your speaking skills, your pronunciation skills, and your understanding skills. So yeah uh possessive pronoun will in masculine will answer to the question ch whose chi
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means whose ch whose but masculine this question isn't masculine in English we have just whose it can be her his and so on um uh the answer can be uh in feminine or masculine Ch means masculine. Ch who's in masculine.
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So yeah me will be in uh possessive pronoun will be my answer to this question. Ch my who's my in masculine my it means my but in masculine remember that. Next is t you.
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T means you t means you and in the possessive pronoun will be to your informal. Informal singular your informal singular on and Anna. He and she on Anna. He she and she on Anna.
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It will be his he her and I'm out of and I'm out of green.
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So my my masculine your so basically it's masculine because it will be followed by a noun in masculine my uh my lesson for example my uh I will use my because lesson in Russian is masculine.
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This is why I will use moy. Let me change the cartridge. Uh yo and y never change.
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They will be the same. His and hero will be the same with feminine masculine neuter.
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So these two never change. Great. Now plural. We we me is we and possessive pronoun will be nash our nash.
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Nash. This is masculine. Nash our. So the noun will be in masculine. We will write examples later. So this one will be our our v you v I will write two V here. One will be with capital.
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This one is U plural. U plural. U plural. And this one is U but formal.
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Formal V with capital V is U formal. V V. This one is U plural and V. U formal.
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Uh V will be possessive pronoun. This one I will write with small V and this one with with capital means your and your but the first one is your plural and this one your formal v.
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If you don't understand don't worry you will see in examples. And the last one will be ani which means they ani they they an they. And um uh the possessive pronoun will be if this one also never changes
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will remain the same in all the genders. And I means their their their toy. For example, I need they just they their car their toy and so on.
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Very good. And let's come up with examples now. Uh let's start with my possessive pronoun.
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Um y is I me. We are going to compare them. This is me. This is I. This is me.
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Now who's my for example? Papa. Papa. This is my father. Papa. After mo, the noun should be in masculine. After moy, the noun should be in masculine. Papa, although it looks like feminine because it ends in a, do
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you remember from our previous lessons? Uh, it's masculine. [clears throat] So, we will use it with moy. This is my father.
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Papa. Papa. This is my father. Orf. Another example is chef. Chef is boss. Chef ends in a consonant. So it's masculine. It will be used with moy. Moy should be used only with a noun in masculine.
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So we can't put here a noun in feminine. For example, a girl will be incorrect.
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Here we need a noun in masculine. Very good. Now t you this is you.
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This is you. Or we can make it a question. Are the Is this you?
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It's you. In Russian language, very often when you want to ask a question, just use your intonation like here. It can be a statement. This is you. Or it can be a question if you use your intonation.
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Is this you? So this is personal pronoun. Now your this one will be used only with masculine nouns as well.
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So doctor, this is your doctor. We can make it a question. Is this your doctor?
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Doctor, is this your doctor? After use only a noun in masculine. Doctor is masculine because it ends in a consonant. Right?
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Is this your doctor? Or just a statement. This is your doctor. Meet him. Another example.
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Telephone is [clears throat] masculine as well. Of course. telephone. This is your phone. Or we can make it a question.
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Is this your phone? But just use your intonation to be clear that you are asking a question, not just saying something.
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Is this your phone? Very good. Next is on he [snorts] on heave. This is he. This is he.
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Personal pronoun. Now let's make it possessive. We will use can be used with all the genders or and with plural. Let's see some examples. So um mama I use it with feminine mama. This is his mother.
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Mama. So can be used only with masculine. Can be used only with masculine noun but can be used with feminine noun.
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Mama this is his mother. It can be used with plural. It can be used with plural. It can be used with feminine. It [clears throat] can be used with masculine. It can be used with neuter.
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This is his money. This is his money. Very good. Also I have example in masculine.
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I will erase this part here. We will write examples because we still need this table here. Right.
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And another example will be trainer. This is his coach, his trainer. Masculine the same same with feminine, same with plural and same with masculine.
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Very good. Next will be right. Anna. This is she. This is her in English.
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Now let's use possessive pronoun. [clears throat] It's her something. This is her. Let's use feminine first.
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Machina. Machina is feminine in Russian. It ends in a. So this is feminine. This is for a car.
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is also used with all the genders. This is her car. ends in a consonant stool. This is her chair. So yo is used with the feminine noun and with masculine noun and plural or not stress, please pronounce as a
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this is her eyelasses and this is plural is plural. Aki is one of those words that is only plural. We don't have singular for aki. Very good.
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Perfect. We this is us. me. This is us personal pronoun. How to say it's our our nash? Nash will be used only with masculine. So not like these two. This one and this one and this one can be
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used with all the genders but not the other personal pronouns. So this is us.
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Nash can be used only with masculine. And we need a noun in masculine only masculine here.
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This is our dictionary. This is our dictionary. This is our dictionary. Another noun in masculine will be zeta nash z. This is our umbrella masculine. Slav is masculine. Umbrella is masculine ends in a consonant and ends in a soft sign.
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Can be feminine or masculine. Slav is masculine. [clears throat] Memorize it. So z this is our umbrella used with nash z only masculine can be used only masculine here now v plural or formal [snorts] v plural or formal both will be veta
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v this is you guys you plural V with capital letter you. A person that I talk in a formal way with. This one is singular. We use it with a person. We talk in a formal way with the teacher,
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doctor, person older than us, person we just met, we will use we for example. So this is personal pronoun vi and possessive will be vash vash same but the second one will be used with the uh in in informal situations formal
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situation sto you is this your t your table is this your table your table guys, two or more people. You are asking two or more people.
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Or if you use capital, let's use another noun here. For example, bank. We can use only masculine here with vash. Only masculine bank. Is this your bank? And this one, uh, I'm asking not a group of people or
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two or more. No, I'm asking one person, but in a formal way. Is this your bank?
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I'm asking my doctor. I'm asking a person I just met at aage bank. Is the for example, I'm u meeting all the owner of the bank and I'm asking at bank I just met this person. This person is
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probably older than me. Of course, I will talk in a formal way with this person. So, I will use bank. Is this your bank?
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Very good. Another example. Again, I'm asking in a formal way, not in plural. is also masculine [clears throat] because ends in a consonant.
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Sorry. Is this your psychologist? Formal. Is this your psychologist? I'm not asking a group of people here.
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I'm asking a group of people. Is this your table, guys? No. Here I'm asking a person that I talk in a formal way with a sand here. This way is small.
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This is your waiter. This is your waiter. Waiter is masculine. Of course, we can't use feminine here or plural only masculine.
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So, it can be a question or a statement. Just use your intonation here. I made it a statement.
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This is your waiter, not me. For example, this is your waiter. And the last one, can be used with all the genders. For example, these are they or this is are them in Russian just they [snorts] [clears throat] these are they these are
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them in English. I know these people. These are them. [snorts] You can see that here I use neutral because I can use any gender with this is their window.
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This is their window. Very good. Uh Let's use feminine because we can. This is their school is feminine. We can use feminine. And the last one, let's use masculine.
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Magazine. Magazine is masculine. And we can use masculine magazine. This is their store. Very good.
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See you tomorrow for our next lesson. We will discuss the next gender. Here we used the masculine. Uh the next time we are going to discuss feminine with a lot of examples.
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Blue is twinky twinky.
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