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o dinheiro dele
o dinheiro dela
o dinheiro de vocês
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oo deen-yayroo dehla
her money oo deen-yayroo dayl oo deen-yayroo di vosaysh
his money
your money
Possessive Pronouns
To translate ‘mine’, ‘yours’, ‘theirs’ etc, use one of the fol-
lowing forms. Like possessive adjectives, possessive pronouns
must agree in gender and number with the object or objects
referred to:
singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
mine meu minha meus minhas
may-oo meen-ya may-oosh meen-yash
yours (sing, fam) teu tua teus tuas
tay-oo too-a tay-oosh too-ash
HOW THE LANGUAGE WORKS
his/hers, seu sua seus suas
N
yours,theirs say-oo soo-a say-oosh soo-ash
ours nosso nossa nossos nossas
nosoo nosa nosoosh nosash
A more formal way of translating ‘yours’ is:
Adjectives
singular plural
and
masculine do senhor dos senhores
doo sin-yohr doosh sin-yohrish
feminine da senhora das senhoras
da sin-yora dash sin-yorash
Adverbs
See the section on subject pronouns for when to use this.

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