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Pronouns
The personal pronouns
The personal pronoun exists in a normal and an emphatic voice, where the first pronoun is normal and the second emphatic in the following list.
| Nominative (subject) | Accusative (object) | |
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| 1sg (I) | mé / mise | mé/mise |
| 2sg (you) | tú / túsa | tú/túsa |
| 3sgm (he) | sé / séisean | é/ éisean |
| 3sgf (she) | sí / síse | í / íse |
| 3sgn (it) | ea / eadhon | ea/eadhon |
| 1pl (we) | sinn, muid / sinne, muidne | |
| 2pl (you[s]) | sibh/ sibhse | sibh/sibhse |
| 3pl (they) | siad / siadsan | iad/ iadsan |
The object form is always used if the pronoun doesn't directly follow the verb. The subject form is used if it directly follows a verb, however not if the verb is synthetic, that is a conjunction of verb and personal pronoun as in e.g tuigim, I understand.
One may ask why Gaelic has so many emphasizing forms, the answer is simple, as Gaelic is a group timed language one cannot use stress to emphasize, hence one uses certain emphasizing forms instead.
Possessive pronouns
my mo+ L/ or m' in front of a vowel. The emphatic form is: mosa
your do+ L, or d' in front of a vowel. The emphatic form is: dosa
his a+ L. The emphatic form is: asan
her a or a h in front of a vowel. The emphatic form is: asa
our ár+ E or ár n- in front of a vowel. The emphatic form is: árna
your pl bhur+ E or bhur n- in front of a vowel. The emphatic form is: bhursa
their a+ E or a n- in front of a vowel. The emphatic form is: asan
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