Possessor mi / rẹ / rẹ̀

Mi means ‘my’; mid-tone rẹ means ‘your’ for one familiar addressee; low-tone rẹ̀ means ‘his’, ‘her’, or ‘its’. Third-person possession does not encode gender. Compare àpò rẹ, ‘your bag’, with àpò rẹ̀, ‘his or her bag’.

These dependent forms accompany a noun. Independent meanings such as ‘mine’ require their own forms and construction. Possession includes relationships and association, and a singular possessor may have several items. The textbook also records shorter second- and third-person variants; the full forms here do not exclude them. It writes doubled noun-final vowels in possessive phrases. That presentation records connected possessive forms; it does not license adding an English-style possessive suffix. Keep the possessor’s tone distinction clear when reading or speaking.