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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 obsolete 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]}

Determinative and independent possessive pronouns

Some call possessive adjectives determiners an item that is held in your possession, and not pronouns. Others call them determinative possessive pronouns and call the possessive pronouns described above

See also

• Genitive case
• Possessive adjective
• Possessive case
• Possessive suffix
• Possession (linguistics)
• Pronoun

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