The possessive adjectives meus, mea, meum and tuus, tua, tuum have endings that look the same as first and second declension nouns:
Masculine: amīcus meus / tuus
Feminine: amīca mea / tua
Neuter: vīnum meum / tuum
Meus, tuus etc. have their own set of endings that happen to be the same as the 1st / 2nd declension nouns and will be used regardless of whether or not the noun is 1st / 2nd declension; an example you saw was nōmen meum / tuum; nōmen (neuter) belongs to a different declension of noun but the possessive adjectives retain the same endings: they do not copy the noun. Similarly [i] liber meus: my book and [ii] you saw the plurals of frāter and soror in the previous post; they are not second declension nouns but the possessive adjectives still retain the same endings.
frāter meus / tuus: my / your brother
frātrēs meī / tuī: my / your brothers
soror mea / tua: my / your sister
sorōrēs meae / tuae: my / your sisters
That the endings are identical applies to all forms of these words i.e. the same as the 1st / 2nd declension nouns:
Nominative Singular
Masculine: amīcus meus; stilus tuus
Feminine: amīca mea; tabula tua
Neuter: pōculum meum; scūtum tuum
Nominative Plural
Masculine: amīcī meī; stilī tuī
Feminine: amīcae meae; tabulae tuae
Neuter: pōcula mea; scūta tua
Spend some time looking at the example structures in the image posted.
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