Adjective agreement after possessives (min gamla...)

Adjectives after possessive pronouns

When you use an adjective after a possessive pronoun (like min, din, hans, hennes, or vår), you must use the definite form of the adjective, but the indefinite form of the noun.

The definite form of the adjective usually adds an -a (for example, mysig becomes mysiga). The noun itself stays indefinite, with no article attached to the end.

Adjectives after genitive nouns

This rule also applies when a noun is owned by someone or something using the genitive -s ending (like Eriks or kusins). Use the possessive noun, followed by the definite adjective (ending in -a), and finally the indefinite noun.

Consistent across all nouns

Whether the noun being described is an en word or an ett word, the adjective still takes the -a ending after a possessive or genitive word, and the noun always remains indefinite.