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Personal pronouns refer to people or things.
 
=='''Nominative (subject) pronouns'''==
 
The Dalcurian ''nominative'' personal pronouns (the subject of the sentence or clause) are:     
 
{| border="1"
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|-
| '''binä
| ''I/I am''
|-
| '''diö'''
| ''you/you are''
|-
| '''mæ'''
| ''he/he is''
|-
| '''sia'''
| ''she/she is''
|-
| '''éren'''
| ''they/they are''
|-
| '''tiÞ'''
| ''it/it is''
|-
| '''ména'''
| ''we/we are''
|}
 
There are also two impersonal pronouns: '''minä'''-''you/one'' and '''minäla'''-''they'', and these are used when referring to people in general, the subjunctive mood, and to equate the use of the English (passive tense (see '''Verbs'''):
   
* '''Am iáda, minä näocr nörasägrax Dal'qörian!''' ''One cannot learn Dalcurian in a day!
 
* '''Minäla gä’escanostr di abödä,, qösra tiÞ gé’stæméras'''. ''The house was demolished because it was dangerous.'' (lit: ''They demolished the house, because it was unsafe''). 
                           
As you can see, the subject pronouns can also carry the present tense inflections of the verb to be: ''am, are, is''. In Dalcurian, one can assume that ''am/are/is'' can always be taken as read when a noun or pronoun is:
 
* Followed by a present participle (a verb with the '''ia''' inflection)
 
* Followed by an 'uninflected' adjective (including modifying words such as ''very/extremely'')
 
''am/are/is'' are not to be taken as read when a noun or pronoun is:
 
* Followed by a modal verb (see '''Verbs-''Modals''''')
 
* Followed by the infinitive
 
*Followed by the imperfect and perfect past tense
 
*Followed by an inflected adjective
 
examples:
 
* '''Binä göria nöra'''. ''I '''am''' going now.'' 
 
* '''Di gadörajel tädø'''. ''The dogs '''are''' tired.''
 
* '''Dörac iáda, ména gä’vecsár!''' ''We argued all day!'' 
 
* '''Öcra tirimiÞ, sia gé’námaroqu disiri'''. ''She was very depressed for a long time.''
 
* '''Iáda, Garé recévria ni Bemöa'''. ''Gary '''is''' getting a BMW today.''
 
* '''Stæ’irønet, vonéri sol, eviár binä abödä'''. ''I rarely get home before 6.''
 
* '''Éren voltir ni didérämös'''.  ''They want a drink.''
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==='''Accusative (direct object) pronouns'''===
 
The ''accusative'' pronoun is the 'object' of the sentence or the thing that is affected by the action of the verb:
 
* I asked '''him'''.
 
* She gave '''her''' the book.
 
* They told '''us''' to go-away!
 
Dalcurian accusative (or objective) pronouns inflect to show this, but nouns do not:
 
{| border="1"
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|-
| '''binöra'''
| ''me/myself''
|-
| '''diöra'''
| ''you/yourself''
|-
| '''mæöra'''
| ''him/himself''
|-
| '''siöra'''
| ''her/herself''
|-
| '''érenöra'''
| ''them/themselves''
|-
| '''tiÞöra'''
| ''it/itself''
|-
| '''ménöra'''
| ''us/ourselves''
|}
 
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==='''Dative (indirect object) pronouns'''===
 
The Dalcurian dative simply puts the preposition '''te'''-''to'' before a nominative pronoun (or noun) as a 'non-static' prefix (prefixes that attach with a high apostrophe). This then means the phrase must follow prepositional word order wherever necessary:
 
* '''Binä, te'sia, gä’andöcr di lalégraj'''. ''I gave her the book/I gave the book to her''. Lit: ''I, to she, gave the book''.
 
* '''Sia, te'binä, gä’ädandöcr'''. ''She gave it back to me/She gave me it back''. Lit: ''She, to me, returned it''.
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=='''Dummy pronoun'''==
 
The dummy pronoun '''it''' is used in English as follows:
 
* '''It''' is raining, '''it''' isn't fair
 
'''it''' in this instance doesn't really refer to anything or an object, but is used to make the sentence grammatical. In Dalcurian, '''tiÞ''' is never used as a dummy pronoun; the adverb '''danöÞ''' idiomatically replaces this:
 
* '''DanöÞ danpöria'''. ''It's raining''.
 
* '''DanöÞ morgér,, taÞ ela qoÞ'''. ''It seems that all is ok''.

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