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IV. PRONOUNS.

(a) The personal pronouns are thus declined :

First Person.
Sing. Plur.
Nom. maiN, I. ham, we.
Gen. merá, mere, merí. ham-árá,-áre,-árí.
D. & A. mujh-ko or mujhe. ham-ko, or -eN.
Ab. mujh-se ham-se.
Loc. mujh-meN, -par, -tak. ham-meN, -par, -tak.
Agt. maiN-ne ham-ne.
Second Person.
Sing. Plur.
Nom. tú. tum, you.
Gen. terá, tere, terí. tum-hárá,-háre,-hárí.
D. & A. tujh-ko or tujhe. tum-ko or, -heN.
Ab. tujh-se. tum-se.
Loc. tujh-meN, -par, -tak tum-meN,-par,-tak.
Agt. tú-ne. tum-ne.

(b) It will be observed that the first and second personal pronouns, 'I' and 'thou,' have a declension peculiar to themselves.

In the first place, the gen. sing, ends in rá, re, rí, and the gen. plur. in árá or hárá, are or háre, árí or hárí, instead of the ká, ke, kí of the substantives. The other cases singular are formed by adding the requisite postpositions to the oblique forms or inflections mujh and tujh : at the same time, the dative and accus. may optionally add ko or e. The cases denoting the agent sing. are formed by adding ne to thenom., as, maiN-ne and tú-ne, and not mujh-ne etc. [1]

  1. But when a noun in apposition comes after miaN and tú they are changed into mujh and tujh, as mujh GHarib ne ; tujh nádán ne.