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===Finno-Ugric languages=== In [[Finnish language|Finnish]], the verb inflection replaces first- and second-person pronouns (but not thirds, which remain obligatory) in simple sentences: ''menen'' "I go", ''menette'' "all of you go". Pronouns are typically left in place only when they need to be inflected, e.g. ''me'' "we", ''meiltä'' "from us". There are [[possessive pronoun]]s but [[possessive suffix]]es, e.g. ''-ni'' as in ''kissani'' "my cat", are also used, as in ''Kissani söi kalan'' ("my cat ate a fish"). A peculiarity of [[Colloquial Finnish]] is that the pronoun ''me'' ("we") can be dropped if the verb is placed in the passive voice (e.g. ''haetaan'', Standard "it is fetched", colloquial "we fetch"). [[Estonian language|Estonian]], a close relative of Finnish, has a tendency that is less clear. Literary Estonian generally uses explicit personal pronouns in the literary language, but they are often omitted in colloquial Estonian. [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] is also pro-drop, and subject pronouns are used only for emphasis: ''(Én) mentem'' "I went". Because of the definite conjugation, object pronouns can be often elided as well. For example, the question ''(Ti) látjátok a macskát?'' "Do (you pl.) see the cat?" can be answered with just ''látjuk'' "(We) see (it)" because the definite conjugation renders the object pronoun superfluous.
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