Irish/Reference/Pronouns

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Table of Pronouns

Below is a table of the forms of Irish pronouns:

Pronoun	Nominative	Accusative/ Copula	Emphatic Nominative	Emphatic Accusative/Copula	Possessive
1st Sing. ("I/me")	mé		mise		mo
2nd Sing. ("you")	tú	thú	tusa	thusa	do
3rd Sing. Masc. ("he/it")	sé	é	seisean	eisean
3rd Sing. Fem. ("she/it")	sí	í
1st. Pl. ("we/us")
2nd. Pl. ("y'all")
3rd. Pl. ("they/them")

Explanatory Notes

General

Irish personal pronouns work much the same way as they do in English, with a few exceptions:

• Irish has no neutral pronoun equivalent to the English "it"; use the pronoun appropriate to the gender of the noun instead
• Unlike most dialects of English, Irish makes a distinction between the second person singular and second person plural
• Irish has a separate emphatic form used in certain situations