Chapter11

Today we’ll look at the personal pronouns and the demonstrative pronouns. The first ones which we will want to view are the personal pronouns. They are called personal because they deal with a person. (i.e. I, we, you, he, she, it, they) Now there’s no easy way around these. They must merely be memorized. Although there is a genitive, it’s seldom used. In English, instead of saying ‘of me’, ‘of you’, ‘of us’, ‘of him, or her or it’ or ‘of them’, which would be the genitive case, English would use the adjectival form, my, your. So in reality, we have to remember the nominative, dative, accusative and ablative forms of these adjectives. For the pronouns, he, she, it, their, we will have to know the genitive form.

Here is the complete form of the pronoun “I”:

Ego I
Mei of me
Mihi to me
Me me
me preposition + me

Here is the complete form of the pronoun “you” singular

Tu you
Tui of you
Tibi to you
Te you
Te preposition + you

Here is the complete form of the pronoun “we”

Nos we
Nostrum of us
Nobis to us
Nos us
Nobis preposition + us

Here is the complete form of the pronoun “you” plural

Vos you
Vostrum of you
Vobis to you
Vos you
Vobis preposition + you

Now for the complete form the pronoun “he, she, it” and their plural form “they”

Is he ea she id it
Ejus of him ejus of her ejus of it
Ei to him ei to her ei to it
Eum him eam her I id it
Eo Prep + him ea prep + her eo prep + it

Ei (ii) they eae they ea they
Eorum their earum their eorum their
Eis to them eis to them eis to them
Eos them eam them ea them
Eis prep + them eis prep + them eis prep + them

These just have to be memorized.

The nominative is used often for emphasizing the subject.

Now for the demonstrative pronouns. If you have memorized the pronoun for “he, she, and it” well then you really know the demonstrative pronoun. There are only a few wrinkles or adjustments. All of these adjustments take place only in the singular.
The adjustments take place only in the nominative, accusative singulars and the genitive plural. For the accusatives and the genitive plural, we will change the “m” to “n” for pronunciation sake. Also the “s” for “is” is omitted.

Now all we have to do is add a suffex “dem” to the pronoun for “he, she, it” So here it is

Idem eadem idem
Ejusdem ejusdem ejusdem
Eidem eidem eidem
Eundem eandem idem
Eodem eadem eodem

Eidem eaedem eadem
Eorundem earundem eorundem
Eisdem eisdem eisdem
Eosdem easdem eadem
Eisdem eisdem eisdem

You translate this adjective as “the same” or “this very”

Now back to the workbook

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