Personal Pronouns & Possessive Adjectives

Jan 05 2005

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Those wonderful things that allow us to speak in the first person and direct our verbal thoughts at ourselves, and others. By definition, a personal pronoun is: A pronoun designating the person speaking (I, me, we, us), the person spoken to (you), or the person or thing spoken about (he, she, it, they, him, her, them).1

Personal Pronouns

Please note that the verb biti does not conjugate following the common pattern.

biti: to be

ja sam I am
mi smo We are
ti si You are
vi ste You are
on/ona/ono je He/She/It is
oni/ona/one su They are (m,f,n)

Possessive Adjectives

moj moja moje m,f,n Mine
vaš vaša vaše m,f,n Ours
tvoj tvoja tvoje m,f,n Yours (Singular)
naš naša naše m,f,n Yours (Plural)
njegov njen m,f His/Hers
njihov njihova njihovo m,f,n Theirs

“personal pronoun. “The American Heritage” Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com GuruNet Corp. 27 Jul. 2005. http://www.answers.com/topic/personal-pronoun

2 responses so far

  1. Just wanted to add the forms for njegov, njezin and njen (the short form of njezin)

    They are as follow:
    njegov, njegova, njegovo (M,F,N) his
    njezin,njezina, njezino (M,F,N) her
    njen, njena, njeno (M,F,N) her

  2. He/She/It is
    They are (m,f,n) mixed up

    thanks a lot for that great work.
    greetings, Roland

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