mine
Pronunciation
[change]Pronoun
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- (possessive) If something is mine, it belongs to me.
- Give that back to me! It's mine!
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Subject | Object | Possessive 1 | Possessive 2 | Reflexive | Subject | Object | Possessive 1 | Possessive 2 | Reflexive | ||
First | I | me | my | mine | myself | we | us | our | ours | ourselves | |
Second | you | you | your | yours | yourself | you | you | your | yours | yourselves | |
Third | Feminine | she | her | her | hers | herself | they | them | their | theirs | themselves |
Masculine | he | him | his | his | himself | ||||||
Impersonal | it | it | its | its | itself |
Noun
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- (countable) A mine is a large hole in the ground from which rocks and minerals are taken.
- (countable) (military) A mine is a device that explodes when it is touched, or when a ship, vehicle, or person comes close to it.
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[change]Verb
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Plain form |
Third-person singular |
Past tense |
Past participle |
Present participle |
- (transitive) If you mine rocks or minerals, you dig them out of the ground.
- (transitive) If you mine an area, you dig a mine there.
- (transitive) If you mine an area, you put exploding mines there.
- The soldiers mined the field to help kill their enemies.