Macedonian pronouns

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A pronoun (заменка) is a substitute for a noun or a noun phrase, or things previously mentioned or understood from the context. These are words like јас 'I', мене 'me', себе 'himself, herself', ова 'this', кој 'who, which', некој 'somebody', никој 'nobody', сите 'all', секој 'everybody'.

Macedonian pronouns decline for case ('падеж'), i.e., their function in a phrase as subject (ex. јас 'I'), direct object (него 'him'), or object of a preposition (од неа 'from her').

Based on their meaning and the function in the sentence, pronouns are fall into in the following categories:

Types of pronouns	Examples
Demonstrative pronouns	ова (this), тоа (that), овде (here), таму (there)
Indefinite pronouns	некој (somebody), нешто (something)
Interrogative pronouns	кој (who), кого/кому (whom), што (what)
Personal pronouns	јас (I), ти (you), тој (he), таа (she), она (it), ние (we)
Possessive pronouns	мој (my), твој (your), нејзин (her), негов (his), наш (our)
Relative pronouns	кој (which), што (that), чиј (whose)
Reflexive pronoun and reciprocal pronouns	себе (himself, herself), се (self)
Universal pronouns	сите (all), секој (everybody, each), сешто (everything), секаде (everywhere)

Contents 1 Formal and informal "you" pronouns 2 Personal pronouns 3 Possessive pronouns 4 Interrogative pronouns 5 Demonstrative pronouns 6 Reflexive pronouns 7 Summative pronouns 8 Negative pronouns 9 Indefinite pronouns

[edit] Formal and informal "you" pronouns

Main article: T-V distinction

Use of ти (second-person singular informal) is generally limited to friends and family, and is used among children. In formal usage only Вие (second-person singular formal) occurs; ти may be used among peers in a workplace, but it is rare in official documents. Вие is almost always capitalized, as a sign of respect.

[edit] Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns
Number	Person		Subject Nominative	Direct Complement Accusative		Indirect Complement
						no preposition Dative		preposition
				full	short	full	short possessive
Singular	First		јас	мене	ме	мене	ми	мене
	Second		ти	тебе	те	тебе	ти	тебе
	Third	Masculine	тој	него	го	нему	му	него
		Feminine	таа	неа	ја	нејзе	ѝ	неа
		Neuter	тоа	него	го	нему	му	него
Plural	First		ние	нас	нè	нам	ни	нас
	Second		вие	вас	ве	вам	ви	вас
	Third		тие	нив	ги	ним	им	нив

[edit] Possessive pronouns

Possessive pronouns
Number	Person		Masculine		Feminine		Neuter		Plural		Short form
			indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
Singular	First		мој	мојот	моја	мојата	мое	моето	мои	моите	ми
	Second		твој	твојот	твоја	твојата	твое	твоето	твои	твоите	ти
	Third	Masculine	негов	неговиот	негова	неговата	негово	неговото	негови	неговите	му
		Feminine	нејзин	нејзниот	нејзина	нејзината	нејзино	нејзното	нејзини	нејзините	ѝ
		Neuter	негов	неговиот	негова	неговата	негово	неговото	негови	неговите	му
Plural	First		наш	нашиот	наша	нашата	наше	нашето	наши	нашите	ни
	Second		ваш	вашиот	ваша	вашата	ваше	вашето	ваши	вашите	ви
	Third		нивен	нивниот	нивна	нивната	нивно	нивното	нивни	нивните	им

[edit] Interrogative pronouns

Interrogative pronouns (прашални заменки) refer to an unknown person, object, quality or quantity and agree with the noun they denote in gender and number. Personal interrogative pronouns have two cases, nominative and genitive (кој, when it refers to a person and is used without a noun, also has accusative and dative forms — кого and кому respectively). They are also used with nonhuman beings (animals and objects). Quality interrogative pronouns are used for asking one to specify the word in question. They are translated in English as what/what kind of/what sort of.

Interrogative pronouns
Gender/ Number	Personal		For quality
	Nominative	Genitive
Masculine	кој (who)	чиј (whose)	каков
Feminine	која	чија	каква
Neuter	кое	чие	какво
Plural	кои	чии	какви

There is only one interrogative pronoun for quantity — колку and it is invariant for gender and number. It is used before plural nouns to ask about their quantity (then it is translated as how much/how many), and before an adjective or adverb to ask about the extent, degree, age, etc., of something or somebody (translated as how).

[edit] Demonstrative pronouns

[edit] Reflexive pronouns

[edit] Summative pronouns

[edit] Negative pronouns

Negative pronouns
Gender and Number	Personal		For quality	For quantity
	Nominative	Genitive
Masculine	никој	ничиј	никаков	николку
Feminine	никоја	ничија	никаква
Neuter	никое	ничие	никакво
Plural	никои	ничии	никакви

[edit] Indefinite pronouns