Look at these sentences:
Es-tu propriétaire de ta maison? Nous allons acheter la nôtre.Do you own your house? We're going to buy ours.
The expressions for 'ours', 'yours' and 'theirs' in French agree in gender and number with the noun they imply or replace:
| ours | yours (pl) | theirs | |
| masc.sing. | le nôtre | le vôtre | le leur |
| fem.sing. | la nôtre | la vôtre | la leur |
| masc.pl. | les nôtres | les vôtres | les leurs |
| fem.pl. | les nôtres | les vôtres | les leurs |
See also Le mien, le tien, le sien, etc = Mine, yours, his/hers/its (possessive pronouns)
and Expressing possession with être à
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