Personal Pronouns
The third person personal pronouns in Latvian have a regular nominal declension, and they have distinct masculine and feminine forms. The first and second person pronouns, and the reflexive pronoun, show no gender distinction, and have irregular declensions.
| singular | plural | reflexive | |||||||
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd masc. | 3rd fem. | 1st | 2nd | 3rd masc. | 3rd fem. | ||
| I | you (fam.) | he/it | she/it | we | you (pol./plur.) | they | -self/-selves | ||
| nominative | es | tu | viņš | viņa | mēs | jūs | viņi | viņas | – |
| genitive | mans | tavs | viņa | viņas | mūsu | jūsu | viņu | viņu | sevis |
| dative | man* | tev* | viņam | viņai | mums | jums | viņiem | viņām | sev* |
| accusative | mani | tevi | viņu | viņu | mūs | jūs | viņus | viņas | sevi |
| locative | manī | tevī | viņā | viņā | mūsos | jūsos | viņos | viņās | sevī |
*After a preposition governing the dative (e.g. līdz "to, until"), the dative forms manim, tevim, and sevim are possible. These forms may replace genitive and accusative pronouns with other prepositions, too.
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