Personal pronouns
Personal Inclusive Pronouns
ᔖᔥ ᓂᒌ ᒦᒋᓲᓐ ᓀᔥᑕᓃ᙮ | ![]() |
shaash nichii miichisuun neshtanii. | Me too, I ate already. |
The pronoun ᓀᔥᑕᓃ neshtanii ‘me too’ indicates that a person is also included. To say that someone is also included, the following set of personal pronouns can be used:
Personal inclusive pronouns:
ᒉᔥᑕᒌ | ![]() |
cheshtachii | you too |
ᓀᔥᑕᓃ | ![]() |
neshtanii | me too |
ᒉᔥᑕᒌᐧᐋᐤ | ![]() |
cheshtachiiwaau | you all too |
ᒉᔥᑕᒌᔮᓅ | ![]() |
cheshtachiiyaanuu | you and me too |
ᓀᔥᑕᓃᔮᓐ | ![]() |
neshtaniiyaan | we too (but not you) |
ᐧᐁᔥᑕᐧᐄ | ![]() |
weshtawii | him/her too |
ᐧᐁᔥᑕᐧᐄᐧᐋᐤ | ![]() |
weshtawiiwaau | them too |
ᐧᐁᔥᑕᐧᐄ (ᐅᐦᑖᐧᐄᐦ) | ![]() |
weshtawii (uhtaawiih) | his/her (father) too |
The above forms are not used in all communities, they are only attested in the Inland dialect, and with elders. Younger people use ᓃ ᑲᔦ nii kaye or ᑲᔦ ᓃ kaye nii ‘me too’, i.e the set of emphatic personal pronouns with the particle kaye ‘also’. ᓀᔥᑕᓃ neshtanii should not be confused with ᓀᔥᑦ ᓃ nesht nii, ‘me too’, or where ᓀᔥᑦ nesht is a coordinating particle. [link particle nesht]