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CHAPTER IV.

The Pronoun.

203. In Irish there are nine classes of Pronouns:​—​Personal, Reflexive, Prepositional, Relative, Demonstrative, Indefinite, Distributive, Interrogative, and Reciprocal pronouns. There are no Possessive pronouns in Irish.

204.

Personal Pronouns.

	SINGULAR.		PLURAL.
1st pers.	mé, I		sinn, we
2nd pers.	tú, thou		siḃ, you
3rd pers.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	sé, he sí, she	siad, they

Each of the above may take an emphatic increase, equivalent to the English suffix self.

205.

Emphatic Forms of the Personal Pronouns.

1st pers.	mise, myself			sinne, ourselves
2nd pers.	tusa, thyself			siḃse, yourselves
3rd pers.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	seisean, himself sise, herself	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	siad-san, themselves

206. The word féin is added to the personal pronouns to form the reflexive pronouns; as do ḃuaileas mé féin, I struck myself.