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Pronouns

The committed personal pronouns are:

PronounMeaning
ikI / me
duyou
viwe / us
hanhe / him
hunshe / her
detit
dethey / them

Pronouns are invariant for subject and object roles.

Examples:

han zin ik

He sees me.

ik zin han

I see him.

Gender

Nouns have no grammatical gender.

Gender distinctions appear only semantically in the third-person singular pronouns:

  • han
  • hun
  • det

Possessive pronouns

Pronouns use the ordinary possessive suffix -s.

BasePossessive
ikiks
dudus
vivis
hanhans
hunhuns
detdets
dedes

There is no separate possessive-pronoun paradigm.