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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 34 Stressed Pronouns 200 / 600

for your entertainment. They have specific, dual forms for two persons – you don’t

use plural then – and D and L are separate cases (of course, they also have

unstressed forms, the language is quite similar to Croatian)...

N A G D L I

1 jaz mene =A meni =D mano / menoj

2 ti tebe =A tebi =D tabo / teboj

f ona njo nje njej / nji =D njo

3 n ono

m on

njega =A njemu njem njim

refl. — sebe =A sebi =D sabo / seboj

1-du f medve naju =A nama =A =D

m midva

2-du f vedve vaju =A vama =A =D

m vidva

3-du f onidve njiju =A njima =A =D

m onadva

f me

1-pl

nas =A nam =A nami

m mi

f ve

2-pl

vas =A vam =A vami

m vi

f ona

njih /

3-pl n one

njih njim =G njimi

nje

m oni

This table includes the instrumental case (I) which we haven’t covered yet. The

interesting things is that some Croatian plural forms (e.g. njima) match Slovene dual

forms. In the history of Croatian, it happened that dual and plural have merged, and

some originally dual forms started being used even when there were more than 2

people, while the original plural forms were simply lost.

However, there are dialects in Croatia where some original plural forms are still

used. If your family is from certain parts of Croatia, some pronouns in the Slovene

table might better match the speech of your grandmother...

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