possessive in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for possessive in the English»Spanish Dictionary (Go to Spanish»English)

Translations for possessive in the Spanish»English Dictionary (Go to English»Spanish)

Show summary of all matches

possessive in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for possessive in the English»Spanish Dictionary (Go to Spanish»English)

Translations for possessive in the Spanish»English Dictionary (Go to English»Spanish)

Your search term in other parts of the dictionary
posesivo (-a)
possessive

possessive Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be possessive about sb
comportarse de manera posesiva con alguien
American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
He is very protective of her due to her health issues; he can also be very possessive of her.
en.wikipedia.org
Although use of ergative pronouns is more common, possessive pronouns can show possession as well.
en.wikipedia.org
This was probably inspired by the phonological change of the third-person singular possessive suffix from in most environments.
en.wikipedia.org
Further, these pronouns and a few others have distinct possessive forms, such as "his" and "whose".
en.wikipedia.org
Notice how the plural possessor forms are identical to the possessive pronoun forms.
en.wikipedia.org
Possession is marked with a possessive suffix; separate possessive pronouns are unknown.
en.wikipedia.org
Possessive pronouns are ignored by the parser, while words pertaining to basic arithmetic are recognized as operations, such as sum, quotient, and cube.
en.wikipedia.org
It is the plural of the possessive suffix "-escu", formerly used for patronyms and currently widespread in family names.
en.wikipedia.org
Thus, these possessive pronouns can as well be termed possessive articles for those use cases.
en.wikipedia.org
In possessive constructions, food is linked to low-status possession, but not as heavily link to high-status possession.
en.wikipedia.org

Would you like to add some words, phrases or translations?

Submit a new entry.

Browse the dictionary

English

Look up "possessive" in other languages


Choose your language Deutsch | Ελληνικά | English | Español | Français | Italiano | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Srpski | 中文
Browse the dictionaries
Most popular