Let's rewrite this as: I want the book of the teacher. Directly translated, "mein-" means "mine" in English.
Alternatively, one could think of possessive pronouns, for example, "mein-", as replacing the phrase, "of me". The possessive pronouns (mein-, dein-, unser-, etc.) are almost identical in form to the genitive pronouns but they directly modify their attribute and could be conceived of as adjectives, though they decline differently. Herr, erbarme dich unser! (Lord, have mercy upon us)Īlso possible: Herr, erbarme dich über uns. In many cases, a preposition can be added to allow a different case to be used. German pronouns have genitive forms, but they are used only rarely nowadays, mostly in archaic or formal German. Proper treatment of the genitive case, including all of the declensions, is found in another part of this book. The noun in the genitive case need not have any modifiers - e.g., Heimat Goethes, Heimat Katerina, which mean the homeland of Goethe and Katerina, respectively - though such constructions can be cumbersome and ambiguous. The first noun may be in any case and may occur in any part of the sentence the second noun, which possesses the first noun, immediately follows the first noun, and is in the genitive case. Standard genitive constructions are used with nouns and modifiers of nouns such as articles and adjectives, and the inflection they receive implies possession. It is used mainly with proper nouns, such as "Goethes Heimat", as well as for compounding words. German itself also uses an "s" (though without the apostrophe) to indicate possession, in the same word order as English. The genitive case also replaces "'s" in English, though reversing the word order (possessed then possessor, vs. Strict replacement of the genitive case with the word "of" maintains the word-order of the German nominal phrase: possessed - possessor (in genitive). "Des" and "der" (do not confuse with masculine singular nominative) mean "of the" "eines" and "einer" mean "of a" / "of an" and "der Sohn guten Weins" means "the son of good wine" (no article, M, Gen strong adjective). The genitive case indicates possession or association, and is equivalent to, and replaces, the English word "of". This table shows the possessive adjective's stem, which is declined as an ein- word (that is, like the indefinite article "ein"). Note: The possessive is not a case of the personal pronoun it's a possessive determiner, called possessive adjective.
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