Use of this word gives much difficulty to the English-speaker, because English has only one possessive pronoun for each person. Cвой declines like мой and agrees in gender, case and number with the noun
it qualifies. It denotes possession by the person or thing which is the subject of the clause in which the possessive pronoun occurs irrespective of whether that subject is first, second or third person and singular or plural. It might therefore translate any of the English possessive pronouns in the following variations:
it qualifies. It denotes possession by the person or thing which is the subject of the clause in which the possessive pronoun occurs irrespective of whether that subject is first, second or third person and singular or plural. It might therefore translate any of the English possessive pronouns in the following variations: