BONUS: How to Say My, Your, Her, and Their in Mandarin🎧 (The Possessive 的)

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In this bonus episode, we’re learning one simple beginner use of 的: the possessive 的.

This is the word Mandarin uses to say things like my, your, her, and their.

The basic structure is:

pronoun + 的 + noun

You’ll learn phrases like 我的咖啡, 你的电脑, 她的手机, and 他们的学校, and practise simple sentences like 这是我的猫 and 这是我的咖啡.

We’ll also briefly look at why native speakers sometimes drop 的 with close relationships, like 我妈妈 instead of 我的妈妈.

A short and useful bonus if you want to understand one of the most common small words in Mandarin.