SamSkandinavisk pronouns
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 | ||||||
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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] |