PRONOUNS

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. Let us see different types of pronouns. There are 5 types of pronouns. 

1. Personal pronoun

2. Demonstrative pronoun

3. Indefinite pronouns

4. Relative pronoun

5. Interrogative pronoun. 

1. PERSONAL PRONOUNS:

Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person, second person, or third person.  

	Singular	Plural
First person	Yaan (I)	Nama Eṅkuḷu (we)
Second person	ee (you)	Eer Nikuḷu (you people)
Third person	Masculine: aaye (he)	aar
	Feminine: aaḷ (she)	aar
	Neutral: avu, undu (it)	aar, akuḷu, aikuḷu (they)

 2. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN:

Demonstrative pronounces are is a pronoun used to point to specific people or things. 

Undu - this

Avvu - that

Undekkuḷu - these

Avkuḷu - those. 

Here - Mūḷu, muḷpa

There - Aḷḷú, Avulu, aḷpa

This side - inchi

That said - anchi. 

3. INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an unspecified or unidentified person or thing. Indefinite pronouns include quantifiers (some, any, enough, several, many, much); universals (all, both, every, each); and partitives. 

Some - kelakuḷu

any - ovvāṇḍala

enough - yaavu/yetaru

several - sumār / masth

all - māntha

both - raḍḍla

every - paḍi/prati

each - paḍiyonji / pratiyonji. 

4. RELATIVE PRONOUN

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause. It serves the purpose of conjoining modifying information about an antecedent referent. The most common are

which - ovvu

that - avu

whose - yērena?

whoever - yērāṇḍala?

whomever - yēregāṇḍala?

who - yēr?

whom - yēreg?

whose - yērena?

5. INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN

An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how.

Who - Yēr

What - Dāyta / Dāda

When - Yēpa

Which - Ovvu?

What kind of - wā?

Where - Oḷpa / Ōḷu

Whom - Yēreg

Whose - Yēren

Why - Dāyeg

How - eñcha

How much - ēth