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Ese muro es suyo y está en el límite.

Ese muro es suyo y está en el límite.
That wall is his, and it is on the boundary.
From Lesson 166:Stressed possessives (mío, tuyo...)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Ese muro es suyo y está en el límite.

Why do we use suyo here instead of su?
Su is the short-form possessive adjective that goes before a noun (like su muro for "his wall"). Here, the word for "his" stands alone after the verb es, so we need the stressed or long-form version, which is suyo.
The translation says "his", but couldn't suyo also mean "hers", "theirs", or "yours" (formal)?
Yes! Suyo is very versatile. Without extra context, this sentence could equally mean "That wall is hers," "That wall is theirs," or "That wall is yours" (if speaking formally using usted). If it were ambiguous in real life, a speaker might clarify by saying es de él instead.
We use both es and está in this sentence. Why do we switch between them?
This sentence is a great reminder of the rules for "to be"! We use es (from ser) in the first half because we are talking about possession (whose wall it is). We switch to está (from estar) in the second half because en el límite describes the wall's physical location.
Why is it Ese muro and not Eso muro?
Muro is a masculine singular noun, so "that" has to be the masculine singular ese. Eso is the neutral form of "that", which is only used for abstract ideas or unknown objects, never directly before a specific noun.

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