26.02.24: nominative plural of meus, mea, meum and tuus, tua, tuum
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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