5. Human pronouns are however used rarely to refer to animals
also in writing.
The personal pronouns have many stem variants. The forms that
occur in singular are free forms and the forms that occur before
the plural are bound forms and the forms which occur before case
suffixes are bound or free depending on the particular case
suffix. It may be noted that some of the bound forms have quite
different shapes.
TABLE - 2
Free forms
Base forms before the plural suffix
Base forms of the Sg. before the case suffix
ní
‘I’
ase
ní
with other cases
o-
k
in genitive
~ u-
ná
with other cases
ná
‘you’
ne-
n
in genitive before human
n
in genitive before non-human
pá
with other cases and in genitive before
human
pá
‘he’
pa
pá
in genitive before non-human
la
lá
--,,--
lá
‘she’
lá
--,,--
ipá
‘it’
ipá-
with all cases
6. For the
distribution of genitive forms see Ch.2.4.
7. The
plural form /lanok/
‘they’ (feminine) is used only in writing and there isno
contrast between masculine and feminine in plural in the spoken
language.The masculine form /panok/
‘they’ is used for both.
A few
examples of the bound forms occuring before case suffixes are
given below with case suffixes.
k
ten
‘with me’
nten
‘with you’
pá ten
‘with him’
k
tak
‘in me’
m
tak
‘in you’
lá tak
‘in her’
k
nem
‘to me’
m
nem
‘to you’
pá nem
‘to him’
k
tai
‘to me’
n
tai
‘to you’
lá tai
‘to her’
k
nui
‘from me’
n
nui
‘from you’
panok
nui
‘from them’
It may be
noted that the oblique forms are identical with genitive forms.
k
kí
‘my house’
l tení
‘her nose’
npu
‘your father’
p
z
‘his dog’
A far as
plural forms of the personal pronouns are concerned there is no
difference between the nominative and the oblique forms. In
other words, the case markers can be added to the nominatives
without any change.
asenok aki
‘by/with us (incl)’
onok tai
‘to us (excl.)’
nenok atema
‘for you (pl.)’
panok
nui
‘from them’
asenok ten
‘with us (incl)’
nenok tak
‘in/at you (pl.)’
It may be
mentioned here that the genitive in plural is also identical
with the nominative.
nok/
‘they’ (feminine) is used only in writing and there isno
contrast between masculine and feminine in plural in the spoken
language.The masculine form /pa
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