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Possessive

Possessives are inflected for Number and Gender and agree with the nouns to which they refer; they are distinguished according to the Person to which they refer.

Possessive 
Person1s 2s 3s 1p 2p 3p
GenderNumber  
ms mio tuo suo nostrovostroloro
mp mieituoisuoinostrivostriloro
fs mia tuasua nostravostraloro
fp mie tue suenostrevostreloro

``Scrivo con la tua penna, perché non ho la mia'' -- PP/fs

Italian has two more possessives: `altrui' (`of other people') and `proprio' (`own'), which can both function as pronouns:

``Spende il denaro altrui, non il proprio'' -- PP/nn
``Occorre dare del proprio denaro, non dell'altrui'' -- PP/nn