Possessives — My, Your, His, Her, Our, Their

🎯 Lesson objective: Say who owns something for all eight people — my house to their house — in one lesson.

Step 1 of 2

In Arabic there is no separate word for "my".

بَيْتبَيْتِيـِي

You keep the noun and add an ending. بَيْت (bēt) = house → بَيْتِي (bēti) = my house. The ـِي (-i) is "my".

Rule 3 — "His" and "her". ـُه (-u) = his: بَيْتُه (bētu). ـهَا (-ha) = her: بَيْتْهَا (bētha).

Rule 4 — Plural owners are the same for men and women, just like إِحْنَا، إِنْتُو، هُمَّا. ـنَا (-na) = our: بَيْتْنَا (bētna). ـكُم (-kum) = your (group): بَيْتْكُم (bētkum). ـهُم (-hum) = their: بَيْتْهُم (bēthum).

Rule 5 — Compare ـه (his) with ـهُم (their): the -um tells you "many". The noun never changes — only the owner ending does. كِتَاب (kitāb) = book → كِتَابِي (kitābi) my book, كِتَابَك (kitābak), كِتَابِك (kitābik), كِتَابُه (kitābu), كِتَابْهَا (kitābha). Don't translate word by word from English: "my book" is ONE Arabic word.

بَيْتُه — bētu — his house

بَيْتْهَا — bētha — her house

بَيْتْنَا — bētna — our house

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Key phrases

Arabic	Transliteration	English
بَيْت	bēt	house
بَيْتِي	bēti	my house
بَيْتَك	bētak	your house (man)
بَيْتِك	bētik	your house (woman)