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(as defined above) : ‘you people and we’. Analogising, some, not all, speakers have pfolikhrumüi composed of pfole and ikhrumüi : ‘they people and we’.
 
The Dual is formed by suffixing hĩ/ hi / he of the cardinal kahĩ ‘two’ to the singular pronominal forms. First person has exclusive-inclusive pronoun distinction in the dual. ahĩ / ahi / ahe formed by suffixing the second syllable of the cardinal is an inclusive dual. The exclusive dual is realised when the no speaker component is specified in the form of a separate word, which then may be said to formally replace the category of the listener that is lexically included in the inclusive dual form.
 
397  pfo ahĩ ‘he and I, the speaker’
  cf. pfo ye ahĩ ‘he and we two (incl. du.)’
     
398  lona ahĩ ‘he and I, the speaker’
  cf. lona ye ahĩ ‘he and we two (incl. du.)’
     
399 ahiro ahi ‘Athiro and I, the speaker’
  cf. ahiro ye ahĩ ‘Athiro and we,(incl. du.)’
     
400  lophro ahi ‘Lophro and I, the speaker’
  cf. lophro ye ahi ‘Lophro and we (incl. du.)’
     
401  ni kasao ahi  ‘your friend and I, the speaker’
  cf. ni kasao ye ahĩ ‘your friend and we (incl. du.)’
     
402 a pfo ahĩ ‘my father and I, the speaker’
  cf. a pfo ye ahi ‘my father and we (incl. du.)’
     
403 ashihra ahi ‘Ashihra and I, the speaker’
  cf. ashihra ye ahi  ‘Ahihra and we (incl. du.)’
     
404 mikrümüipfo-na-i ahĩ ‘the male Meitei and I, the speaker’
  cf. mikrüipfo-na-i ye ahĩ ‘the male Meitei and we (incl. du.)’
     
405 kaikho ahi ‘Kaikho and I, the speaker’
  cf. kaikho ye ahi ‘Kaikho and we (incl. du.)’
     
406  lopüi ahi)  ‘she (rem.) and I, the speaker’
  cf. lopüi ye ahĩ ‘she (rem.) and we (incl. du.)’


Only the first person singular pronoun has stem alternants : ai/ay, the nominative form alternates optionally with a in the ergative, obligatorily becomes ayi in its oblique form and a in the genitive. All the other pronouns have their oblique forms marked by -yi except the genitive which is formally the same as the nominative/ergative.

3.3.6.1.1.
 		 Person Agreement in Noun

Possesses nouns with the prefix o- discussed earlier, typically optionally, agree with the singular subject NP as to person. Agreement with first person pronouns is felt to be more felicitous than with second and third person pronouns although agreement with the latter is distinctly possible.
 
407   oba ‘hand’
   

{ oba }

  

 

 a.  pfokrehrü1 / pfo-hi2 { } kali4 bu5 se6
   

{ pfoba }

  
       
   

Pfokrehrü1 / he2 has5

  only6 one4 hand3
       
   

{ oba }2

  

 

 b.

 ni1 { }

 kali3 bu4 se5
   

{ niba }

 
       
   

‘you (sg.)1 have4

  only5 one3 hand2
       
       

 

 c.

ai1 { }

 kali3 bu4 se5
   

{ aba }

  
       
   

I1 have4 only5

  one3 hand2
       
408   ozhu name
       
   

{ozhu}3

  

 

 a.

pfokrekrü1 /pfo-hi2 { }

 kaxi4 bue5
   

{ pfozhu}

  
   

Pfokrehrü1 / he2 has5

 

  two4 names3

 
  b.
{ ozhu}
  
   
ni1 { }
 kaxi3 bu-e4
   
{nizhu}
  
   
‘you (sg.)1 have4 two3 names2’
 
       
   
{ ozhu }2
  
  c.
ai1 { }
 kaxi3 bu-e4
   
{ azhu}
 
   
‘I1 have4 two3 names2’
 
       
 

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