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===Personal pronouns=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="2" |Person ! Singular !Plural |- ! colspan="2" |1st | me | nus |- ! colspan="2" |2nd | vu | vus |- ! rowspan="4" |3rd !'''Common''' | le | les |- !Masculine | lo | los |- !Feminine |la |las |- !Neuter |lu |lus |} The standard [[word order]] in Novial is [[subject–verb–object]], as in English. Therefore, the object need not be marked to distinguish it from the subject, and nominative (I, he, she and so on) and oblique (me, him, her) pronouns are identical: {{interlinear|lang=nov|indent=3 |me observa vu |I observe you |}} {{interlinear|lang=nov|indent=3 |vu observa me |you observe me |}} The accusative (direct object) is therefore most often identical to the nominative (subject). However, in case of an ambiguity problem, an optional accusative ending, {{lang|nov|-m}} ({{lang|nov|-em}} after a consonant), is available but is rarely used. The preposition {{lang|nov|em}} is equivalent to this ending.{{dubious|J discusses the preposition em as an idea, but is it really included?|date=October 2020}} The personal possessive adjectives are formed from the pronouns by adding {{lang|nov|-n}} or after a consonant {{lang|nov|-en}}. This is in fact the genitive (possessive) of the pronoun so {{lang|nov|men}} means both 'my' and 'mine' ('of me'): {{interlinear|lang=nov|indent=3 |Men hunde |My dog |}} {{interlinear|lang=nov|indent=3 |Li hunde es men |The dog is mine |}} The possessive pronouns are thus {{lang|nov|men}}, {{lang|nov|vun}}, {{lang|nov|len}}, etc., {{lang|nov|lun}} and {{lang|nov|nusen}}, {{lang|nov|vusen}}, {{lang|nov|lesen}} etc. and {{lang|nov|lusen}}. Possession may also be expressed with the preposition {{lang|nov|de}}: {{lang|nov|de me}}, {{lang|nov|de vu}}, and so on. The reflexive pronoun is {{lang|nov|se}}: {{lang|nov|lo admira se}} – 'he admires himself'.<ref>Jespersen, O: ''[https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_8342993&order=1&view=SINGLE An International Language]'' (p. 90, 109)</ref> The impersonal pronoun one ('one/they/you') is {{lang|nov|on}}, with the possessive form {{lang|nov|onen}}.
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