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Habyela: Difference between revisions
Pronouns
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The men fell (volitional, as in they fell to the ground to hide or to duck something). | The men fell (volitional, as in they fell to the ground to hide or to duck something). | ||
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"The knife that the men killed the dog with" | "The knife that the men killed the dog with" | ||
==Pronouns== | |||
Habyela is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-drop_language Pro-drop_language], meaning that pronouns can be freely left out of a sentence if they are obvious from context. This elision is especially common if the pronoun is the subject of a sentence, since verbs take affixes to indicate the subject anyway. Unlike nouns, pronouns do not inflect for case: | |||
1st person singular: /ʔana/ | |||
1st person plural: /naxə̀nʷɨ/ | |||
2nd person: /ʔanəʈa/ | |||
3rd person masculine singular: /xʷɨ̀ma/ | |||
3rd person feminine singular: /çɨ̀ɫa/ | |||
3rd person plural: / nonhuman: /xʷɨ̀mɨ/ | |||