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Gaelic uses possessive determiners (corresponding to my, your, their, etc.) differently from English. In Gaelic, possessive determiners are used mostly to indicate inalienable possession, for example for body parts or family members. As indicated in the following table, some possessive determiners lenite the following word.
Similarly, if the object of the verbal noun is a pronoun, then it is a possessive pronoun: Tá sé á phlé. "He's discussing it." (lit.: He is at its (i.e. the bicycle's) discussing) More examples: Tá sí do mo bhualadh. "She's hitting me." Tá siad do do phlé. "They are discussing you." Tá sé á pógadh. "He's kissing her." Tá tú dár ...
the possessive pronouns mo "my" and do "your (singular)" become m' and d' before a vowel or fh + vowel, as in m'óige "my youth", d'fhiacail "your tooth" the preverbal particle do becomes d' before a vowel or fh + vowel, as in d'ardaigh mé "I raised", d'fhanfadh sé "he would wait"
Class B pronouns are used after preverbs historically ending in consonants. They are characterized by starting with /d/, spelled as t or d (the forms beginning with t in the below table can also be sometimes spelled with d) and their irregular fusions with their preverbs. Class C pronouns are used with verbs within a nasalized subordinate clause.
The personal pronouns of many languages correspond to both a set of possessive determiners and a set of possessive pronouns.For example, the English personal pronouns I, you, he, she, it, we and they correspond to the possessive determiners my, your, his, her, its, our and their and also to the (substantive) possessive pronouns mine, yours, his, hers, its (rare), ours and theirs.
It states that objects with less mana than the possessor use the a-possessive particle, and the usage of the o-possessive marker is reserved for the possessor's mana that is not superior. [ 47 ] The same usage of the possessive particles in possessive pronouns can be seen in the contracted portmanteau, the combination of the articles and ...
In common with Irish and Scottish Gaelic, in addition to its regular personal pronouns, Manx has also a series used for emphasis. Under certain phonological circumstances, these can be used as unemphatic pronouns, e.g. "you were not" is cha row uss [xa ˈrau ʊs] as cha row oo [xa ˈrau u(ː)] sounds too similar to cha row [xa ˈrau] "was not".
a haois "her age" (after possessive pronoun a "her"; compare with a aois, "his age" and a n-aois, "their age" with regular urú) go hÉirinn "to Ireland" (after preposition go "to, towards") le hAntaine "with Antaine" (after preposition le "with") na hoíche "of the night" (on feminine singular genitive noun after definite article)