**Regular Possessive Adjectives go before the noun, like they do in English. Ejemplo: Mi libro = My book
Notes on Possessive Adjectives (from Dr. Lemon)
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**Stressed Possessive Adjectives (or the long forms) go after the noun. Ejemplo: El libro mío = MYYYY book (or the book of mine.) The stress here is on the owner/person, not the object.
See bottom of this page for Long form/Stressed Possessive Adjectives (from Spanish Notebook)
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**Possessive Pronouns (mine, yours, his, hers, theirs, ours, etc.) You would use this in a situation like this one: "Everyone else's keys are right here. Where in the world are MINE?"
These are formed by dropping the noun from the above construction. For example,
la casa suya (his/her house) becomes la suya (his/hers)
el libro mío (my book, the book of mine) => el mío (mine)la casa suya (his/her house) becomes la suya (his/hers)
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