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''Șiv'' is used as a polite 2nd person pronoun (the same way as Yiddish ''ir''; e.g. ''șiv'' is used for speaking to a rabbi). | ''Șiv'' is used as a polite 2nd person pronoun (the same way as Yiddish ''ir''; e.g. ''șiv'' is used for speaking to a rabbi). | ||
All of these forms have emphatic counterparts: mișă, t(h)usă, (ș)esăn , (ș)ișă, șņi, (ș)ivșă, (ș)iedsăn. These are essentially the "default" independent forms. These are used to address someone: ''Tusă!''/''Ivșă!'' 'You!'. Expressions for 'only', 'except' and 'also' also require emphatic pronouns: אן אף תּוֹסא, בּרוֹתּוֹס ''Ăn af tusă, Brutus?'' 'Et tu, Brute?' To emphasize ''șņi'' 'we' you have to use ''feyn'' after it (șņi itself comes from the emphatic form ''*siňə''). | All of these forms have emphatic counterparts: mișă, t(h)usă, (ș)esăn , (ș)ișă, șņi, (ș)ivșă, (ș)iedsăn. These are essentially the "default" independent forms. These are used to address someone: ''Tusă!''/''Ivșă!'' 'You!'. Expressions for 'only', 'except' and 'also' also require emphatic pronouns: אן אף תּוֹסא, בּרוֹתּוֹס ''Ăn af tusă, Brutus?'' 'Et tu, Brute?' To emphasize ''șņi'' 'we' you have to use ''feyn'' after it (''șņi'' itself comes from the emphatic form ''*siňə'', cf. Irish and Scottish Gaelic ''sinne''). | ||
Emphatic suffixes for prepositions with pronominal suffixes: -să -să -șăn -șă feyn -șă -săn: e.g. for ''ăģ'' 'of, at' we have ''gumsă, gădsă, ģesăn , c̦ișă, giņi feyn, givșă, cusăn'' | Emphatic suffixes for prepositions with pronominal suffixes: -să -să -șăn -șă feyn -șă -săn: e.g. for ''ăģ'' 'of, at' we have ''gumsă, gădsă, ģesăn , c̦ișă, giņi feyn, givșă, cusăn'' | ||