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[comments] pronounsmss Basics (10 articles)

1. Conjugations

2. Declinations

3. Interrogation

4. Interrogative and relative pronouns

5. Personnal pronouns

6. Pronunciation

7. Prosody

8. Relative clauses

9. Word classes

10. Word order

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Menu 1. Strong pronouns 2. Weak pronouns 3. Litterary use There are two forms of personnal pronouns in Mayessa : strong and weak ones.

Please be aware that pronouns are considered as nouns because they get the same declinations.

[top]Strong pronouns

The strong pronouns are the followings :

"I" = së - /s/
"You" = so - /ˈsɤ/
"He" = su - /ˈsu/
"She" = gë - /ɟ/
"It" = eze - /ɛˈθɛ/
"We" = erë - /ˈɛɾ/
"You" (pl.) = ero - /ɛˈɾɤ/
"They" = suri - /ˈsuj/

In most writings (newspaper, novels - except for dialogs...) and situations of formal language, these are the pronouns usually used and declinated. For instance, their genitive expresses the possession.

[top]Weak pronouns

And here are the weak pronouns :

"I" = ika - /iˈka/
"You" = ila - /iˈla/
"He" = isa - /iˈsa/
"She" = ëgle - /əˈʟ̝ɛ/
"It" = ez - /ˈɛθ/
"We" = eiku - /ɛjˈqu/
"You" (pl.) = eilu - /ɛjˈlu/
"They" = ura - /uˈɾa/

Those pronouns are used as a termination to a noun, strictly to express possession. They are not declinable and the noun keeps its undeclinated plural form (though adjectives to a possessed noun are declinated with the Oblique case).

For example, here are the both ways to say "my dogs" :

ühsdavëlaon sëozëhn - /yjˈsdaʋəlaɤ̯n ˈsə̯ojð̞n̩/ - dog-DEFDefinite
"the".PLPlural (number)
more than one/few IInterjection (POS)-GENGenitive (case)
possessive.PLPlural (number)
more than one/few ühsdavëlaonika - /yjˈsdaʋəlao̯nika/ - dog-DEFDefinite
"the".PLPlural (number)
more than one/few.POSSGPossessed (case)
marks being owned.1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I

[top]Litterary use

For the litteral expression of the kind of "he thought", the pronoun can be used along with the conjugated verb.

There are souls, he thought... - Eritala clauon, tëvasi su...

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