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mijne
mijne
Dutch
Determiner
mijne
- non-attributive form of mijn (English: mine)
- Normally used in conjunction with the definite article de or het depending on the gender of what is being referred to.
- Die auto is de mijne. — That car is my one. That car is mine.
- Dat huis is het mijne. — That house is my one. That house is mine.
- Dat is de/het mijne. — That is my one. That is mine.
- Normally used in conjunction with the definite article de or het depending on the gender of what is being referred to.
- (archaic, dialectal) Inflected form of mijn
- Used for masculine words in Flemish and Brabantian dialects.
- Dat is mijne stoel. (standard Dutch: Dat is mijn stoel.) — That's my chair.
- Used for masculine words in Flemish and Brabantian dialects.
Inflection
Dutch personal pronouns
subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
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singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | ||
1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me | mijner |
2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je | jouwer |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer |
3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner |
3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich | harer |
3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner |
plural | |||||||||
1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons | onzer |
2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je | – |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer |
3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich | hunner |
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). |
5)Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural. |