pronoun.md

14. Pronoun

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List of pronouns

Pronouns are listed in the following table.

	English	SFGPL
First Person Pronoun	I	ga
Second Person Pronoun	you	ge
Third Person Pronoun	he/she/it	gi
Proximate Pronoun	this	gu
Distant Pronoun	that	go
Interrogative Pronoun	what	wa
Indefinite Pronoun	something	we

Pronoun applications

As a rule, SFGPL pronouns do not distinguish between people, organisms, objects, concepts, places, times, reasons, methods, etc. There is no distinction based on gender or number. These distinctions can be made by using noun determiner.

Interrogative word

The following table shows the use of noun determiners for interrogatives.

English	SFGPL
what	pen wa
who	ben wa
when	pin wa
where	pun wa
why	pon wa
how	ban wa

Plural pronouns

To indicate plurals, use don. For example, don ga is used to denote "We".

Clusivity of person pronoun

In particular, the plural of first-person pronouns may be distinguished based on whether they include the speaker or the addressee. The SFGPL cannot directly distinguish between these, but it can do so by doing the following.

	Include the addressee	Exclude the addressee
Include the Speaker	don ba ge ga	don ba ga gi
Exclude the Speaker	don ge	don gi

Examples of conjugation of third person pronouns

Gender distinctions do not exist in the SFGPL. Nor is there a distinction between persons and things. For example, to make explicit the third person pronouns masculine, feminine and thing, one can do the following.

	English	SFGPL
male	he	lan gi
female	she	len gi
thing	it	pen gi

Possessive and Recursive pronouns

In addition, you can create possessive and reflexive pronouns using sen and sin. The following table shows the possessive and reflexive pronouns for first person pronouns.

	English	SFGPL
Possessive Pronoun	mine	sen ga
Reflexive Pronoun	myself	sin ga