Sentient Beings

To indicate familial relationship, e.g., "my mom," "your dad," "his sister," etc., for a sentient being, one applies the appropriate honorific to the family word as can be seen in the following examples. The possessor is implied.

With Names

Names also take these honorifics when a family relationship is being emphasized or acknowledged.

Explicit Possessors

An explicitely named possessor simply precedes the honored noun in the sentence. The family relationship can be implicit when naming both possessee and possessor, or it can be explicit by stating the relationship after the honorific.

Non-Sentient Beings

Since honorifics don't apply to non-sentient beings, these types of possessives always take the form of a familial possessive with a named possessor--minus the honorofic, of course. In fact, this is the very reason that leaving off the honorific in the above examples would be so insulting—it is essentially calling both members represented in the utterance an animal or worse.

I am assuming you have now read the Alienable and Inalienable possessives pages in addition to this one. If so, here is a little example sentence that contains every type of possessive. Enjoy!