Third person pronouns

  Epicene Masculine Feminine Neuter
Singular  
subject lean, leane lei lye lin, line
object lea lei lye li
Dual  
subject ilean, ileane ilei ilye ilin, iline
object ilea ilei ilye ili
Plural  
subject alean, aleane alei alye alin, aline
object alea alei alye ali

Usage

As with the first and second person pronouns, the subject forms are only used for emphasis. Prepositions take the object form; postpositions and -ez are fused with the object form.

The (grammatical) subject of impersonal constructions is lea, not lean or leane.

Special meanings

Ilea and ili also mean "both, two"; alea and ali also mean "all, everyone, everything". There is also the emphatic ayali "everything" with a double prefix.

Compounds

Negatives: nalea "nobody", nali "nothing".

Indeterminates: salea "someone, whoever" sali "something, whatever", sayali "all kinds of things, various". Also aliye "anything (at all)" often used with negations.

Interrogatives: culea "who", culi "what".

In formal usage only epicene forms of compound pronouns exist, but masculine and feminine forms occur in the spoken language: salye "some woman", culei "who, which man".

Restyled 08-Sep-2002