PPAff: Case is marked on personal pronouns using suffixes.
The declension of singular persnal pronouns (I, you, he/she/it)
Cases | 1sg | 2sg | 3sg |
Nom. | mā | nüŋ | ʌüw |
Acc. | mānt | nüŋat | ʌüwat |
Dat. | māntem | nüŋati | ʌüwati |
Lat. | māntema | nüŋatina | ʌüwata |
Loc. | mānə | nüŋnə nüŋatinə | ʌüwnə ʌüwatinə |
Abl. | māntemi | nüŋatiji | ʌüwatiji |
Appr. | māntemnam | nüŋatinam | ʌüwatinam |
Transl. | māntemɣə | nüŋatinɣə | ʌüwatiɣə |
Instr-Fin. | māntemat | nüŋatinat | ʌüwatiɣat |
Com-Instr. | māntemnat | nüŋatinat | ʌüwatinat |
Abess. | māntemʌəɣ | nüŋatinʌəɣ | ʌüwatiʌəɣ |
(based on Honti 1977: 275–276. és Csepregi 1998: 24–25.)
Personal pronouns in the lat, loc, apr, tra, ins-fin, com-instr and abe cases take the same suffixes which are used with nouns. Compared to the noun declension paradigm, the paradigm of pronouns is more extensive: they also have accusative and dative cases. The suffix of the accusative is -t, and the dative is formed by attaching the appropriate personal affix (Px) to the accusative stem. In the remaining part of the pronominal paradigm the case-marking suffixes are attached to the dative stem (except for the loc). The affixation of the personal pronoun shows some subdialectal variation in Surgut Khanty.