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. |
| 1st | jeg [jeɪ] | mig [meɪ] | min [miːn] / mitt [mɪtː] / mine [ˈmiːnə] | 1st | vi [viː] | oss [ɔsː] | vår [vɔːr] / vårt [vɔʈː] / våre [ˈvɔːrə] |
| 2nd | du [duː] | dig [deɪ] | din [diːn] / ditt [dɪtː] / dine [ˈdiːnə] | 2nd | i [iː] | eder [ˈeːdər, eːr] | eders [ˈeːdəʂ, eːʂ] |
| 3rd Masculine | han [hanː] | hanem [ˈhɑːnəm] / ham [hamː] | hans [hanːs] | 3 | de [deː] | dem [deːm] | deres [ˈdeːrəs] |
| 3rd Feminine | hon [hɔnː] | henne [ˈhɛnːə] | hennes [ˈhɛnːəs] | ||||
| 3rd Common | den [dɛnː] | den [dɛnː] | dens [dɛnːs] | ||||
| 3rd Neuter | det [dɛ] | det [dɛ] | dets [dɛtːs, dɛsː] | ||||
| 3rd Impersonal | man [manː] | — | — | ||||
| (3rd Reflexive) | — | sig [seɪ] | sin [siːn] / sitt [sɪtː] / sine [ˈsiːnə] | (3rd Reflexive) | — | sig [seɪ] | sin [siːn] / sitt [sɪtː] / sine [ˈsiːnə] |