mías
Mías is the feminine plural form of the Spanish possessive pronoun corresponding to the first-person singular, meaning mine. It functions as a pronoun rather than a determinant and is used to indicate that something belongs to the speaker when the noun it refers to is feminine and plural.
In usage, mías appears when the noun is understood or already mentioned, and it can stand alone
- La casa es mía. (The house is mine.)
- Estas llaves son mías. (These keys are mine.)
- ¿De quién son estas cosas? Las mías. (Whose things are these? Mine.)
Etymology and relation to other forms:
- Mías derives from mío, itself from Latin meus. The form changes to agree with feminine plural
- The corresponding masculine plural pronoun is míos; the singular feminine pronoun is mía.
- Accent on the i is mandatory to distinguish mías from any potential non-words and to indicate
- In casual speech, speakers may use other possessive constructions (mi, tus, sus) before nouns, but mías