grammar.pronouns.relative-cuyo

Cuyo: 'whose', agreeing with the thing owned

Cuyo/cuya/cuyos/cuyas means 'whose' and agrees with what is possessed, not the possessor: la empresa cuyos empleados...

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Erklärung

Cuyo sits between the possessor and the possessed and agrees with the latter: el autor cuya novela ganó ('the author whose novel won') — cuya because novela is feminine.

It is formal and mostly written; conversation prefers a workaround: el autor que escribió la novela que ganó. Never *que su: *el autor que su novela ganó is a common error to avoid.

Beispiele

Es una empresa cuyo nombre no recuerdo.
It's a company whose name I don't remember.

Region: global

La casa cuyas ventanas dan al mar es esa.
The house whose windows face the sea is that one.

Region: global

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