In many languages, possessive determiners are subject to agreement with the noun they modify, as in the French mon, ma, mes, respectively the masculine singular, feminine singular and plural forms corresponding to the English my.
[9] The basic pronominal possessive determiners in Modern English are personal my, your, his, her, its, our and their, interrogative whose[10] (as in Whose coat is this?)
Examples include Jane's, heaven's, the boy's, Jesus', the soldiers', those men's, the king of England's, one's, somebody's.
In Norwegian the phrase "my book" would be boka mi,[11] where boka is the definite form of the feminine noun bok (book), and mi (my) is the possessive pronoun following feminine singular nouns.
In some Romance languages such as French and Italian, the gender of the possessive determiners agrees with the thing(s) owned, not with the owner.
In the first and second person plural forms--nuestra/nuestro and vuestra/vuestro—possessive determiners do mark gender inflection in the singular, e.g., nuestra nuera y nuestro yerno ("our daughter-in-law and our son-in-law").
All possessive determiners mark the plurality of the possessee, e.g. Mi esposa tiene mis gafas ("My wife has my glasses").
Spanish possessive pronouns agree with the gender and plurality of the possessee, e.g. Esas niñas son nuestras.
Some Germanic languages, such as English and Dutch, use different pronouns depending on the owner.
Brabantian also inflects zijn (his) and haar (her) according to the grammatical gender and number of the thing(s) owned.
In Japanese, for example, boku no (a word for I coupled with the genitive particle no), is used for my or mine.
Consider the following examples involving relational nouns: Possessive determiners commonly have similar forms to personal pronouns.