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=== Personal pronouns === The first and second persons are irregular, and both pronouns are indeclinable for gender; and the third person reflexive pronoun sē, suī always refers back to the subject, regardless of whether the subject is singular or plural. {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="3" | ! colspan="2" | First Person ! colspan="2" | Second Person ! colspan="2" | Third Person |- ! colspan="2" | {{wikt-lang|la|ego|ego}}, {{wikt-lang|la|nos|nōs}}<br />I, we ! colspan="2" | {{wikt-lang|la|tu|tū}}, {{wikt-lang|la|vos|vōs}}<br />you ! colspan="2" | {{wikt-lang|la|se|sē, suī}}<br />himself, herself, itself,<br>oneself,<br>themselves |- ! Singular ! Plural ! Singular ! Plural ! Singular ! Plural |- !Vocative | colspan="2" |— | rowspan="2" |tū | rowspan="3" |vōs | colspan="2" rowspan="2" |— |- ! Nominative | ego<br />egō || rowspan="2" | nōs |- ! Accusative | mē || tē || colspan="2" | sē<br />sēsē |- ! Genitive<br>complements | meī || nostrī || tuī || vestrī || colspan="2" | suī |- !Genitive [[partitive]] |— |nostrum |— |vestrum | colspan="2" |— |- ! Dative | mihi<br />mihī || rowspan="2" | nōbīs || tibi<br />tibī || rowspan="2" | vōbīs || colspan="2" | sibi<br />sibī |- ! Ablative | mē || tē || colspan="2" | sē<br />sēsē |} The genitive forms {{wikt-lang|la|meī}}, {{wikt-lang|la|tuī}}, {{wikt-lang|la|nostrī}}, {{wikt-lang|la|vestrī}}, {{wikt-lang|la|suī}} are used as complements in certain grammatical constructions, whereas {{wikt-lang|la|nostrum}}, {{wikt-lang|la|vestrum}} are used with a [[partitive]] meaning ('[one] of us', '[one] of you'). To express possession, the possessive pronouns (essentially adjectives) {{wikt-lang|la|meus}}, {{wikt-lang|la|tuus}}, {{wikt-lang|la|noster}}, {{wikt-lang|la|vester}} are used, declined in the first and second declensions to agree in number and case with the thing possessed, e.g. {{lang|la|pater meus}} 'my father', {{lang|la|māter mea}} 'my mother'. The vocative singular masculine of {{lang|la|meus}} is {{lang|la|mī}}: {{lang|la|mī Attice}} 'my dear Atticus'.<ref>[[Cicero]], ''[[Epistulae ad Atticum]]'' 6.1.20 etc.</ref> ==== Possessive pronouns' declensions ==== {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="3" | ! colspan="6" | {{wikt-lang|la|meus|meus, mea, meum}}<br /> my, mine |- ! colspan="3" | Singular ! colspan="3" | Plural |- ! Masculine ! Feminine ! Neuter ! Masculine ! Feminine ! Neuter |- ! Nominative | meus || rowspan="2" | mea || rowspan="3" | meum || rowspan="2" | meī || rowspan="2" | meae || rowspan="3" | mea |- ! Vocative | mī (& meus) |- ! Accusative | meum || meam || meōs || meās |- ! Genitive | meī || rowspan="2" | meae || meī || meōrum || meārum || meōrum |- ! Dative | rowspan="2" | meō || rowspan="2" | meō || rowspan="2" colspan="3" | meīs |- ! Ablative | meā |} {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="3" | ! colspan="6" | {{wikt-lang|la|tuus|tuus, tua, tuum}}<br /> your, yours (for singular possessor) |- ! colspan="3" | Singular ! colspan="3" | Plural |- ! Masculine ! Feminine ! Neuter ! Masculine ! Feminine ! Neuter |- ! Nominative |tuus ||tua || rowspan="2" | tuum ||tuī ||tuae || rowspan="2" | tua |- ! Accusative | tuum || tuam || tuōs || tuās |- ! Genitive | tuī || rowspan="2" | tuae || tuī || tuōrum || tuārum || tuōrum |- ! Dative | rowspan="2" | tuō || rowspan="2" | tuō || rowspan="2" colspan="3" | tuīs |- ! Ablative | tuā |} {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="3" | ! colspan="6" | {{wikt-lang|la|suus|suus, sua, suum}}<br /> his, her, its, theirs (reflexive) |- ! colspan="3" | Singular ! colspan="3" | Plural |- ! Masculine ! Feminine ! Neuter ! Masculine ! Feminine ! Neuter |- ! Nominative | rowspan="2" |suus || rowspan="2" |sua || rowspan="3" | suum || rowspan="2" |suī || rowspan="2" |suae || rowspan="3" | sua |- ! Vocative |- ! Accusative | suum || suam || suōs || suās |- ! Genitive | suī || rowspan="2" | suae || suī || suōrum || suārum || suōrum |- ! Dative | rowspan="2" | suō || rowspan="2" | suō || rowspan="2" colspan="3" | suīs |- ! Ablative | suā |} {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="3" | ! colspan="6" | {{wikt-lang|la|noster|noster, nostra, nostrum}}<br /> our, ours |- ! colspan="3" | Singular ! colspan="3" | Plural |- ! Masculine ! Feminine ! Neuter ! Masculine ! Feminine ! Neuter |- ! Nominative, Vocative |noster ||nostra || rowspan="2" | nostrum ||nostrī ||nostrae || rowspan="2" | nostra |- ! Accusative | nostrum || nostram || nostrōs || nostrās |- ! Genitive | nostrī || rowspan="2" | nostrae || nostrī || nostrōrum || nostrārum || nostrōrum |- ! Dative | rowspan="2" | nostrō || rowspan="2" | nostrō || rowspan="2" colspan="3" | nostrīs |- ! Ablative | nostrā |} The possessive adjective {{lang|la|vester}} has an archaic variant, {{lang|la|voster}}; similar to {{lang|la|noster}}. Vocative of {{lang|la|meus}} is usually {{lang|la|mī}}, and rarely {{lang|la|meus}} also, like the nominative. {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="3" | ! colspan="6" | {{wikt-lang|la|vester|vester, vestra, vestrum}}<br >{{wikt-lang|la|voster|voster, vostra, vostrum}}<br >your, yours (for plural possessor) |- ! colspan="3" | Singular ! colspan="3" | Plural |- ! Masculine ! Feminine ! Neuter ! Masculine ! Feminine ! Neuter |- ! Nominative |vester<br >voster ||vestra<br>vostra || rowspan="2" | vestrum<br>vostrum ||vestrī<br>vostrī ||vestrae<br>vostrae || rowspan="2" | vestra<br>vostra |- ! Accusative | vestrum<br>vostrum || vestram<br>vostram || vestrōs<br>vostrōs || vestrās<br>vostrās |- ! Genitive | vestrī<br>vostrī || rowspan="2" | vestrae<br>vostrae || vestrī<br>vostrī || vestrōrum<br>vostrōrum || vestrārum<br>vostrārum || vestrōrum<br>vostrōrum |- ! Dative | rowspan="2" | vestrō<br>vostrō || rowspan="2" | vestrō<br>vostrō || rowspan="2" colspan="3" | vestrīs<br>vostrīs |- ! Ablative | vestrā<br>vostrā |} Usually, to show the ablative of accompaniment, {{wikt-lang|la|cum}} would be added to the ablative form. However, with personal pronouns (first and second person), the reflexive and the interrogative, ''-cum'' is added onto the end of the ablative form. That is: {{wikt-lang|la|mēcum}} 'with me', {{wikt-lang|la|nōbīscum}} 'with us', {{wikt-lang|la|tēcum}} 'with you', {{wikt-lang|la|vōbīscum}}, {{wikt-lang|la|sēcum}} and {{wikt-lang|la|quōcum}} (sometimes {{wikt-lang|la|quīcum}}). Pronouns have also an emphatic form bi using the suffix ''-met'' ({{wikt-lang|la|egomet}}, {{wikt-lang|la|tūte}}/{{wikt-lang|la|tūtemet}}, {{wikt-lang|la|nosmet}}, {{wikt-lang|la|vosmet}}), used in all cases, except by the genitive plural forms. In accusative case, the forms ''mēmē'' and ''tētē'' exist as emphatic, but they are not widely used. {{wikt-lang|la|se|Sē, suī}} has a possessive adjective: {{wikt-lang|la|suus|suus, sua, suum}}, meaning 'his/her/its/their own': :{{lang|la|Patrem '''suum''' numquam vīderat.}} ([[Cicero]])<ref>[[Cicero]], ''[[Pro Rabirio Postumo]]'' 4</ref> :"He had never seen '''his''' [own] father." When 'his' or 'her' refers to someone else, not the subject, the genitive pronoun {{lang|la|eius}} (as well as ''eōrum'' and ''eārum'') 'of him' is used instead of ''suus'': :{{lang|la|Fit obviam Clodiō ante fundum '''eius'''.}} ([[Cicero]])<ref>[[Cicero]], ''[[Pro Milone]]'' 29</ref> :"He met Clodius in front of '''the latter's''' farm." Despite its resemblance to the possessive adjectives {{lang|la|meus, tuus}} and {{lang|la|suus}}, {{lang|la|eius}} does not decline in agreement with the noun it refers to, in the way that an adjective would. For instance, "his father" in the accusative is {{lang|la|patrem eius}} (literally, "father of him"), not {{lang|la|patrem}} ''*eium'', in contrast with the reflexive formation {{lang|la|patrem suum}} ("his [own] father"). When one sentence is embedded inside another with a different subject, ''sē'' and ''suus'' can refer to either subject: :{{lang|la|Patrēs conscrīptī ... lēgātōs in Bīthȳniam miserunt quī ab rēge peterent, nē inimīcissimum '''suum''' '''secum''' haberet '''sibi'''que dēderet.}} ([[Cornelius Nepos|Nepos]])<ref>[[Cornelius Nepos]], ''Hannibal'' 12.2</ref> :"The senators ... sent ambassadors to Bithynia, who were to ask the king not to keep '''their''' greatest enemy '''with him''' but hand him over '''to them'''." For the third-person pronoun {{wikt-lang|la|is}} 'he', see below.
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