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Drempels un Tegels vun’t Neddersassische
(Nedderdüütsche, Plattdüütsche) Building Blocks of Low Saxon (Low German) Demonstrative Pronouns: Phonemic |
| Singular | Nominative | Objective | Reflexive | Genitive | |||
| Nominative | Objective | ||||||
| 1st (I) | ik | mii | miin | miin(en)* | |||
| 2nd | fam. (thou) | duu | dii | diin | diin(en)* | ||
| ref. (you) | zei | zei ~ jem ~ jüm | zik | er ~ jem er ~ jüm er, hör** | er(en) ~ jem er(en) ~ jüm er(en),* hör** | ||
| 3rd | masc. (he) | hei | em, hum** | ziin | ziin(en)* | ||
| fem. (she) | zei | er, hör** | er, hör** | er(en),* hör** | |||
| neut. (it) | dat*** | ziin | ziin(en)* | ||||
| Plural | 1st (we) | vii | us ~ uns | us(en) ~ uns(en)* | |||
| 2nd | fam. (you) | jii | juu(ch), jou** | juun | |||
| ref. (you) | zei | zei ~ jem ~ jüm | zik | er ~ jem er ~ jüm er, hör** | er(en) ~ jem er(en) ~ jüm er(en),* hör** | ||
| 3rd (they) | jem ~ jüm, hör** | jem ~ jüm ~ zik, hör** | |||||
* The suffix -(e)n is only used if the possed object has masculine gender, and this use is optional.
** Italicized forms are specific to the dialects of Eastern Friesland.
*** The original neuter pronoun survives as et or it only in a few dialects, mostly outside the North Saxon group.
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