Personal Pronouns
Pronouns are inflected for person, number and case. No gender distinctions are made for the third person singular: he and she are both translated in Cebuano as siya.
The three cases are absolutive, ergative and oblique.
| Absolutive | Ergative |
Ergative |
Oblique | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full | Short | Full | Short | Full | Full | Short | |
| 1st person singular | ako | ko* | nako | ko | ako, akoa | kanako | nako |
| 2nd person singular | ikaw | ka | nimo | mo | imo, imoha | kanimo | nimo |
| 3rd person singular | siya | niya | iya,iyaha | kaniya | niya | ||
| 1st person plural inclusive | kita | ta | nato | to | ato, atoa | kanato | nato |
| 1st person plural exclusive | kami | mi | namo | mo | amo, amoa | kanamo | namo |
| 2nd person plural | kamo | mo | ninyo | inyo, inyoha | kaninyo | ninyo | |
| 3rd person plural | sila | nila | ila, ilaha | kanila | nila | ||
* - Ta only when the object is the second person singular, i.e., ka, mo, etc. For example, Nakita ta ka, NOT *Nakita ko ka.
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