deras
Galician
Indonesian
Portuguese
Swedish
Pronunciation
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Pronoun
deras
- their; belonging to them
- När grannarna är bortresta, vaktar jag deras hund = When the neighbors are traveling, I tend their dog
Usage notes
Note the difference to sin:
- När grannarna åker bort tar de med sig sin hund = When the neighbors travel, they bring their (own) dog.
That is, use sin if the subject of the sentence are the ones possessing something; deras otherwise.
Declension
Swedish personal pronouns
subject | object | possessive | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | full | full | common | neuter | plural | |||
1st person | jag | mig, mej3 | min | mitt | mina | |||
2nd person | du | dig, dej2 | din | ditt | dina | |||
3rd person masculine | han | honom, han2 | hans | |||||
3rd person feminine | hon | henne | hennes | |||||
3rd person gender-neutral | hen1 | hen1, henom1 | hens1 | |||||
3rd person common | den | den | dess | |||||
3rd person neuter | det | det | dess | |||||
3rd person indefinite | man or en6 | en | ens | |||||
3rd person reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina | |||
plural | ||||||||
1st person | vi | oss | vår, våran2 | vårt, vårat2 | våra | |||
2nd person | ni | er, eder5 | er, eran2, eder5 | ert, erat2, edert5 | era, edra5 | |||
3rd person | de, dom4 | dem, dom4 | deras | |||||
3rd person reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina |
1Not universally accepted.
2Informal
3Colloquial pronunciation spelling sometimes found in colloquial texts.
4Informal pronunciation spelling found very often in informal writings.
5Dated
6Dialectal, also used lately as a gender-neutral alternative to man.
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