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The SamSkandinavisk personal pronoun system is very similar to that of Danish, Norwegian-Bokmål and Swedish, and incidentally quite close to English. Pronouns inflect for person, number, and, in the third person singular, gender. Unlike English there is a separate third-person reflexive pronoun '''sig''' (himself, herself, itself, themselves). SamSka also keeps a distinct 2nd person singular '''du''' (you) and '''i''' (you plural), and objective forms of these. Reflexive forms are not used for the first and second person, '''mig''' for example can mean both ''me'' or ''myself''. | |||
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Personal pronouns
The SamSkandinavisk personal pronoun system is very similar to that of Danish, Norwegian-Bokmål and Swedish, and incidentally quite close to English. Pronouns inflect for person, number, and, in the third person singular, gender. Unlike English there is a separate third-person reflexive pronoun sig (himself, herself, itself, themselves). SamSka also keeps a distinct 2nd person singular du (you) and i (you plural), and objective forms of these. Reflexive forms are not used for the first and second person, mig for example can mean both me or myself.
| Singular | Plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | Nominative | Objective | Possessive: com./neut./pl. | Person | Nominative | Objective | Possessive: com./neut./pl. |
| 1 | jeg [jeɪ] | mig [meɪ] | min [miːn] / mitt [mɪtː] / mine [ˈmiːnə] | 1 | vi [viː] | oss [ɔsː] | vår [vɔːr] / vårt [vɔʈː] / våre [ˈvɔːrə] |
| 2 | du [duː] | dig [deɪ] | din [diːn] / ditt [dɪtː] / dine [ˈdiːnə] | 2 | i [iː] | eder [ˈeːdər, eːr] | eders [ˈeːdəʂ, eːʂ] |
| 3 Masculine | han [hanː] | hanem [ˈhɑːnəm] / ham [hamː] | hans [hanːs] | 3 | de [deː] | dem [deːm] | deres [ˈdeːrəs] |
| 3 Feminine | hon [hɔnː] | henne [ˈhɛnːə] | hennes [ˈhɛnːəs] | ||||
| 3 Common | den [dɛnː] | den [dɛnː] | dens [dɛnːs] | ||||
| 3 Neuter | det [dɛ] | det [dɛ] | dets [dɛtːs, dɛsː] | ||||
| 3 Impersonal | man [manː] | — | — | ||||
| (3 Reflexive) | — | sig [seɪ] | sin [siːn] / sitt [sɪtː] / sine [ˈsiːnə] | (3 Reflexive) | — | sig [seɪ] | sin [siːn] / sitt [sɪtː] / sine [ˈsiːnə] |