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NOTES FOR A GRAMMAR OF ARAGONESE

PERSONAL PRONOUNS (I)

SUBJECT FORMS:
 
Person
Singular
Plural
First
yo
(I)
nusatros, -as
(we)
Second
tu
(you)
busatros, -as
(you)
Third
él, ella
(he, she)
ellos, -as
(they)
When two forms are given, the first one is for masculine and the second one is for feminine gender. As shown before, neuter gender doesn't exist as a nominal category; consequently there is no neuter pronoun equivalent to it. When we want to refer to a neuter (abstract) thing, we should use the demonstrative neuter pronouns isto or ixo. E.g:
Ixo ye o que dizió (It is what he said)
(Ixo) ye un can, no un mixín (It is a dog, not a cat)
Ixo yera o millor que podébanos fer (It was the best thing we could do)

PREPOSITIONAL CASE:

There is no prepositional case in Aragonese, the same forms as those of the subject case being used when pronouns come after a preposition, e.g: O libro ye ta yo (The book is for me); A mesacha yera con él (The girl was with him).

DIRECT OBJECT:
 
Person
Singular
Plural
First
me
(me)
nos / mos
(us)
Second
te
(you)
bos / tos
(you)
Third
lo, la, en
(him, her, it)
los, las, en
(them)
-en (and its contextual variations: ne, 'n, n') can refer to any third person, whatever its gender and number is, e.g:
Cuántos en tiens? -No en tiengo pon. (How many have you got? -I haven't got any [of them])
No podié prebar-ne dengún (I couldn't taste any [of them])
Mos n'imos agora mesmo (We are leaving just now [from this place])
Te'n abisarán contrantis (They will let you know [about it] as soon as possible)

-Analogical forms mos, tos are mainly found in Eastern Aragonese whereas nos, bos are more characteristic of Western and Southern dialects.

INDIRECT OBJECT:
 
Person
Singular
Plural
First
me
(me)
nos / mos
(us)
Second
te
(you)
bos / tos
(you)
Third
le
(him, her, it)
les
(them)


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©Antón-Chusé Gil, 1997