Possessive pronoun
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A possessive pronoun is a part of speech that attributes ownership to someone or something. Like all other pronouns, it substitutes a noun phrase and can prevent its repetition. For example, in the phrase, "These glasses are mine, not yours", the words "mine" and "yours" are possessive pronouns and stand for "my glasses" and "your glasses," respectively.
There are seven possessive pronouns in modern English: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, and theirs, plus the rarely used possessive pronoun thy/thine. The clitic -'s also works as a possessive pronoun such as Jack's. For a more complete list, see the full list of English pronouns.
Some languages have neither possessive pronouns nor possessive adjectives, and express possession by declining the personal pronouns in the genitive or possessive case, or by using possessive suffixes. In Finnish, for example, minun ("I's"), means "mine" or "my".[citation needed]
