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Prepositional Pronouns
or
Pronominal Prepositions.

216. Fifteen of the simple prepositions combine with the disjunctive forms of the personal pronouns; and to these combinations is given the name of Prepositional Pronouns or Pronominal Prepositions.

All these compounds are very important. As five or six of them occur most frequently these will be given first, and the remainder, if so desired, may be left until the second reading of the book. The important combinations are those of the prepositions, ag, at; ar, on; le, with; ó, from; and ċun, towards.

All the combinations may take an emphatic suffix. One example will be given.

	SINGULAR.			PLURAL.
217.	ag, at or with.
1st pers.		agam,	at me	againn, at us
2nd pers.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	agat, agad,	at thee	agaiḃ, at you
3rd pers.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	aige, aici,	at him at her	aca, at them

218. The combinations of ag with the emphatic suffixes.

1st pers.		agamsa, at myself	againne, at ourselves
2nd pers.		agatsa, at thyself	agaiḃse, at yourselves
3rd pers.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	aigesean, at himself aicisi, at herself	acasan, at themselves