Definition of My:

part of speech: pronoun

One of the possessive forms of the personal pron. I, the other being mine,- my is used before a word beginning with a vowel or a consonant, and mine usually before a vowel only; in common usage my is put before the noun, but mine follows it, and usually stands alone, as, this is my coat, that coat is mine.

Usage examples:

• But we must tell my mother. Virginia Woolf in "Night and Day".

• But ye believe not, because ye are not of My sheep. Marcus Dods in "The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I".

• My daughter knows all my business. Charles Weathers Bump in "The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories".

• And then what would my husband say? Gordon Randall Garrett in "The Foreign Hand Tie".