Spanish and plural possesive nouns
Is there such a thing, in Spanish?
I recently posted an answer to the English word of the day "cut". I wanted to say "I cut my dogs' hair myself." While trying to figure out how to translate this to Spanish, I began to wonder what is done in Spanish when you have a situation like this, where I am saying that I have more than one dog and I'm talking about something of theirs i.e. dogs'.
I looked in the reference section of SP, but I can't find anything on this subject.
Deanski and Spanish Pal gave me some help with correcting my answer on that thread.. but I'm still confused (which is not surprising)!
1 Answer
In English your problem stems from where you are placing the apostrophe. Dogs' is inferring more than one dog. See below.
the boy's ball (one boy)
the boys' ball (two or more boys)
As far as I am aware Spanish avoids this apostrophe nonsense.
Me corté el pelo de mi perro - One dog
Me corté el pelo de mis perros - More than one dog
