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Someone/ Some person
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Masculine
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Sg. |
Pl. |
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Direct
|
koIyo |
koIya |
|
Oblique
|
koIya
|
koIyã
|
|
Vocative
|
koIya |
koIyo |
|
|
|
|
Feminine
|
|
|
|
Direct
|
koI i
|
koIĩ
|
|
Oblique
|
koIi
|
koIIyã
|
|
Vocative
|
koIIye
|
koIIyo
|
|
|
A few examples are :
|
|
koIyo
|
ayo
|
|
‘Someman
|
has
|
come’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
koIya
|
jyẽ
|
tha
|
‘Someman
|
were
|
going’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
|
| hũ |
koIya |
na |
kò a
|
w r
|
caũ
|
 |
‘I
|
make
|
someone
|
sit
|
on
|
the |
horse’ |
|
1
|
2
|
3 |
4 |
5
|
6 |
7 |
1 |
6-7 |
2-3 |
6-7 |
5 |
|
4 |
|
|
|
| o |
koIva, |
meri |
gl
|
sU
|
‘O
|
person/someone,
|
listen
|
to
|
me
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5
|
1 |
2 |
5 |
|
3-4 |
|
|
Same way feminine indefinite pronouns (human) are also used.
|
|
koIi
|
jI)wi
|
ma
|
kà
|
kpp€
|
|
‘Somelady
|
cuts
|
grass
|
in
|
the
|
field’
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
etc.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reflexive Pronouns:
|
|
There is also a reflexive pronoun {ap-} used for all the persons and
numbers and genitival form derived from it by adding {- -}
is /ap-o/
which is inflected like other inflective adjective or the genitive forms of first person
as shown on p. 97. It always refers to the noun in the subject position. A
few examples are :
|
|
|
|
|
|
we
|
It
|
ap
|
aya
|
|
‘They
|
themselves
|
have
|
come
|
here’
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
|
| |
|
t
|
apo
|
km
|
ddo
|
‘Why
|
did
|
you
|
leave
|
your
|
work
|
half-done?’
|
|
1
|
2
|
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
1 |
6 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
hũ
|
apa
|
sathi
|
ko €
|
geyo
|
‘I
|
went
|
to
|
my
|
colleague’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5
|
1 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
wa
|
api
|
sng
|
ko€
|
gi
|
thi
|
‘She
|
had
|
gone
|
to
|
her
|
friend
|
|
1
|
2
|
3 |
4 |
5
|
6 |
1 |
6 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
|
|
There is another form /aps/
derived from /ap/ which always take some postposition and is used like
noun as in :
|
| hm |
aps |
ma |
kÚj
|
ní |
lgta
|
We
|
are
|
not
|
related
|
among
|
ourselves
|
|
1
|
2
|
3 |
4 |
5
|
6
|
1 |
|
5 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
ya
|
Unnã
|
gi
|
aps
|
gi
|
gl
|
|
‘This
|
is
|
their
|
personal/own
|
matter
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6
|
7 |
1 |
2 |
2-3 |
4-5 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
etc.
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