THE PRONOUN.
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(literally, the book of ourselves). Könyve is in both instances in the third person singular.
Note.—The reflective pronoun is often—ungrammatically—used to express solitude; as, magam vagyok, instead of egyedül vagyok = I am by myself.
III. Demonstrative Pronouns.
Of demonstrative pronouns there are three kinds:—
- (a) those which point to a substantive (thing or person) are called substantival;
- (b) those which refer to the quality or some peculiarity of the substantive, called adjectival; and
- (c) those which point to the quantity of the substantive, called numerical.
Examples of class a are:
- ez, this; emez, this here; ugyanez, this same; for things near; and
- az,[1] that; amaz, that there; ugyanaz, that same; for things at a distance.
There are, further: ezen, ugyanezen; and azon, ugyanazon; which are in meaning the same as, ez, ugyanez; or az, ugyanaz, in so far as each points to a thing (near or distant) out of many. There is, however, a shade of distinction among these two
- ↑ Az, article, and az, pronoun, are distinguished: (a) that the pronoun stands always before the article; (b) that the pronoun is capable of inflection, and the article is not.
