Editing Dutch grammar (section)

===Possessive determiners===

Possessive determiners also have stressed and unstressed forms, like the pronouns.

{| class="wikitable"
! [[Grammatical person|person]] !! uninflected !! inflected
|-
| 1st person singular || mijn (m'n) || mijne
|-
| 2nd person singular, informal || jouw (je) || jouwe
|-
| 2nd person singular, formal || uw || uwe
|-
| 2nd person singular, southern || uw || uwe
|-
| 3rd person singular, masculine || zijn (z'n) || zijne
|-
| 3rd person singular, feminine || haar ('r, d'r) || hare
|-
| 3rd person singular, neuter || zijn (z'n) || zijne
|-
! colspan="3" |
|-
| 1st person plural || ons || onze
|-
| 2nd person plural, informal || jullie (je) || —
|-
| 2nd person plural, formal || uw || uwe
|-
| 2nd person plural, southern || uw || uwe
|-
| 3rd person plural || hun || hunne
|}

Possessive determiners are not inflected when used attributively, unlike adjectives. Thus:

* {{lang|nl|Hij is mijn man.}} ("He is my husband.")
* {{lang|nl|Dat is mijn huis.}} ("That is my house.")

An exception is {{lang|nl|ons}}, which inflects like an indefinite adjective, receiving {{lang|nl|-e}} when used with a masculine, feminine or plural noun. Possessive determiners are themselves definite in meaning, so any following adjectives will occur in the definite form even when the possessive itself does not:

* {{lang|nl|ons grot'''e''' huis}} ("our big house")
* {{lang|nl|onz'''e''' grot'''e''' huizen}} ("our big houses").

The inflected form is also used when the determiner is used predicatively. It is always preceded by a definite article in this case, giving the appearance of an implied noun. For example: {{lang|nl|Dit is mijn auto. De auto is de mijn'''e'''.}} ("This is my car. The car is mine.", more literally "The car is the my one"). {{lang|nl|Jullie}} has no inflected form, the sentence is usually rephrased with {{lang|nl|van}} instead: {{lang|nl|De auto is van jullie.}} ("The car is of you.")

Before the case system was abolished from written Dutch, and in southern spoken language, all possessive determiners inflect(ed) as indefinite adjectives, not only {{lang|nl|ons}}. They also used to inflect for case. While this is no longer done in modern Dutch, some relics still remain in fixed expressions. See [[Archaic Dutch declension]] for more details.