Possessive Pronouns

Urdu has possessive pronouns for the first person and the second person. There are no third person possessive pronouns. That function is carried out by the demonstrative pronouns in the oblique case, followed by a special postposition.

The table below shows the possessive pronouns.

Person	Singular	Plural
First	میرا meraa 'my'	ھمارا hamaaraa 'our'
Second	تیرا teraa 'thy'	تمہارا tumhaaraa 'your'

Possessive pronouns always agree with the nouns they qualify. They inflect for gender, number, and case in the same way as declinable adjectives.

For example:

میرا گھوڑا

meraa ghoRaa 'my horse'

تیرے گھوڑے

tere ghoRe 'your (literally: thy) horses'

ھماری گھوڑی

hamaarii ghoRii 'our mare'

تمہاری گھوڑیاں

tumhaarii ghoRiyaaN 'your mares' etc.

Third person possessive pronoun forms are composed of the appropriate demonstrative pronoun in the oblique case and the postposition کا kaa. The postposition agrees in gender, number, and case with the word to which it functions as an attribute.

The pronominal adjective اپنا apnaa 'one's own' functions as the equivalent of English possessive pronouns when the possessor denoted by them is identical to the subject. It always agrees with the noun it qualifies, and inflects for gender, number, and case in the same way as declinable adjectives. (See Declension of Adjectives.)

میں اپنا کام کرتا ھوں

maiN apnaa kaam kartaa huuN

'I do my work'

وہ اپنے بیٹے سے لمبا ھے

vah apne beTe se lambaa hai

'He is taller than his son'

تم اپنی بیٹی کے یہاں جاتے ھو ؟

tum apnii beTii ke yahaaN jaate ho?

'Do you visit your daughter?'

The use of the pronominal adjective apnaa اپنا in such sentences is obligatory.