ABC Russian: Russian possessive pronouns

How to use and how to form Russian possessive pronouns?

You already know that a pronoun is a word that replaces a noun in a sentence, making the subject a person or a thing. A possessive pronoun is a part of speech that attributes ownership to someone or something.

English possessive pronouns are: my, mine, our, its, his, her, their etc . – all words that demonstrate ownership.

In Russian language we also have such pronouns that demonstrates ownership.  

Russian possessive pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the nouns that they refer to.

There are 4 ways of saying the English «my»  in Russian: 

мой, моя, моё, мои. 

– for example, you want to say: This is my cat.  
You know that the word  «кот» is masculine, that’s why you should use the pronoun «мой»

– for example, you want to say: This is my family.  

You know that the word «семья» is feminine. That’s why you should choose  «моя» 

– you want to say: This is my place 

the word «место» is neutral. That’s why you should choose  «моё» 

-and for the sentence with plural, for example: These are my children  you should use «мои» .  Это мои дети 

Declension of Russian possessive pronoun Мой, моя, мое, мои