Seuna pronouns

the ten pronouns

I, me	mi	we, us	mia
you	yu	you(pl)	yua
he/she, him/her	na	they them	wa
it	to	they	ton
you and me	myu	we	myun

to and ton is for the category non-human. The ONLY exception to this is in folk tales where certain animals are given the power of speach. Then these animals can use the eight human pronouns.

myu is a dual number pronoun meaning "me and you". myun is the first person inclusive plural pronoun. It means "me and you and somebody else" or "me and you and other people" That "somebody else"/"other people" could be from the me-group the you-group or from elsewhere.

to is often not used in SEUNA where we would use "it" in English. For example, if you were asked "where did you buy that magazine", you would reply "I bought in station news-stand" instead of "I bought it in the station news-stand"

the reflexive pronoun

There is also the reflexive pronoun swe

This pronoun can never be used as a subject. However the following compounds can be.

I myself	swemi	we ourselves	swemia
you yourself	sweyu	you yourself	sweyua
he/she him/her/self	swena	they themselves	swewa
it itself	sweto	they themselves	sweton
we ourselves	swemyu	we ourselves	swemyun

pronouns and role tags

The pronouns take all the role tags that normal nouns take (except the "-s" tag).

As with regular adjectives, the genitive pronouns come after the nouns they qualify.

hendori kaunu swege.

hend	-o	-r	-i	kaunu	swege
put on	-3s	-ACT	-PAST	coat	"own"

'He put on his (own) coat.'

When the regular third person possessive pronouns are used, they are understood as not being coreferential with the subject.

hendori kaunu nage.

hend	-o	-r	-i	kaunu	nage
put on	-3s	-ACT	-PAST	coat	"his"

'He put on his (someone else's) coat.'

other examples

sukoro cata swewa = he likes talking about himself

sukoro cata sweyo = he likes to talk to himself

Index

1. Introduction to Seuna
2. Seuna : Chapter 1
3. Seuna word shape
4. The script of Seuna
5. Seuna sentence structure
6. Seuna pronouns
7. Seuna nouns
8. Seuna verbs (1)
9. Seuna adjectives
10. Seuna demonstratives
11. Seuna verbs (2)
12. Asking a question in Seuna
13. Seuna relative clauses
14. Seuna verbs (3)
15. Methods for deriving words in Seuna
16. List of all Seuna derivational affixes
17. Numbers in Seuna
18. Naming people in Seuna
19. The Seuna calendar
20. Seuna units