possessive in English

adjective
1
demanding someone's total attention and love.
as soon as she'd been out with a guy a few times, he'd get possessive
synonyms:proprietorialoverprotectivecontrollingdominatingjealousclingy
2
relating to or denoting the case of nouns and pronouns expressing possession.
It's a relational noun, which means that a possessive shows who the noun relates to.
noun
1
a possessive word or form.
Prenominal possessives (John's car, my hat) normally function as definite expressions.
adjective
noun

Use "possessive" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "possessive" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "possessive", or refer to the context using the word "possessive" in the English Dictionary.

1. Areas' - plural possessive (possessive of more than one area)

2. Atmosfer (first-person possessive Atmosferku, second-person possessive Atmosfermu, third-person possessive Atmosfernya) atmosphere Synonyms: udara, hawa

3. Bon (plural, first-person possessive Bonku, second-person possessive Bonmu, third-person possessive Bonnya) union, association, guild

4. 'Ours' is a possessive.

5. 'My'is a possessive adjective.

6. Possessive Abbreviated Name

7. Turns out lesbians are super possessive.

8. She: Why are you so possessive?

9. Jimmy's very possessive about his toys.

10. Baret (first-person possessive Baretku, second-person possessive Baretmu, third-person possessive Baretnya) a beret, type of cap, also used as part some military uniforms

11. Bus (plural Bus-Bus, first-person possessive Busku, second-person possessive Busmu, third-person possessive Busnya) Bus: a motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads

12. 'Hers' is the possessive form of 'her'.

13. Nick's starting to get possessive and jealous.

14. He was very possessive towards her.

15. Bebat ( first-person possessive Bebat ku, second-person possessive Bebat mu, third-person possessive Bebat nya ) band (strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together) Synonyms: perban, pengikat, pembarut, pembalut.

16. They were possessive about their servants.

17. He's pretty possessive about his car.

18. 'Mine' and 'yours' are possessive pronouns.

19. Banderol (plural, first-person possessive Banderolku, second-person possessive Banderolmu, third-person possessive Banderolnya) revenue stamp : A stamp to be affixed as proof that the tax due on the marked product has been paid.

20. She had always been possessive of her brother.

21. Forming the Possessive with a Common noun

22. People were very possessive about their coupons.

23. He's so possessive about his new car.

24. Was she actually feeling possessive about her companion?

25. 'Anne's', 'the boy's', 'the boys'' are possessive forms.

26. Benefactive possessive element merges with an already categorized verb

27. He admits, “I became angry, jealous, possessive, and insecure.”

28. Horses can be very jealous, and very possessive.

29. Some parents are too possessive of their children.

30. The child was very possessive with his toys.

31. She was terribly possessive of our eldest son.

32. He could also be very possessive, especially towards women.

33. He is a possessive, duplicitous and unreasonable man.

34. 6 Nick's starting to get possessive and jealous.

35. Ablaut (plural Ablaut-Ablaut, first-person possessive Ablautku, second-person possessive Ablautmu, third-person possessive Ablautnya) (linguistics) Ablaut; Further reading “Ablaut” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

36. Why should he feel so possessive about some old photos?

37. You have learned that nouns form their possessive by adding Apostrophes

38. Zero parental stress, zero weirdly possessive friends and absolutely zero drama.

39. 5 Danny could be very jealous and possessive about me.

40. “I had to become less possessive of the baby,” she says.

41. Her boyfriend was getting too possessive so she finished with him.

42. ♪ And I'm possessive ♪ ♪ It isn't nice ♪

43. Apostrophe: Sign of omission of letter or to show possessive.

44. Apostrophes show that a word is possessive, that it owns something

45. Possessive forms of Bucka; possessor single possession multiple possessions 1st person sing

46. She's very possessive about her toys and finds it hard to share.

47. The plural of boss is Bosses The possessive of boss is boss' or boss's (the s is optional) The possessive of Bosses is Bosses' or Bosses's (again the s is optional)

48. Avaricious, acquisitive, covetous, rapacious, grasping, venal, Cupidinous, materialistic, mercenary, predatory, usurious, possessive

49. The Accusative case changes the masculine definite (der), indefinite (ein) and possessive (mein) articles.

50. But the moment you fall in love, you become extremely sexually possessive of them.