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.

Table of Personal pronouns

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]