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POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS. 



As will be observed by refereuce to the preceding inflexions, the pos- 

 sessive pronouns are derived from the genitive case of the personal pro- 

 nouns. They are mai", dai", sai", i'ra or irs, sai" or sains, from the 

 singular, and uns'r, air and i'ra from the plural. 



INDEFINITE PRONOUNS. 



Indefinite pronouns, representing persons or things without particular 

 specification, are used, the most important of which are here given, viz.: 



man, one, »ome one. 

 eb'ber, some one., somebody. 

 nim'mand, no one, nobody. 

 ken'ner, no one, neither, 

 e"'ner, one, some one. 

 ye'derer, each one. 

 mau'icher, many a one. 

 et'-lich a, some, several. 

 e"'nicha, some, any one. 



REFLEXIVE AND RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS. 



A pronoun is termed reflexive when the action represented thereby re- 

 verts upon the agent, as ar shnait sicli, he cuts himself; sich being equiva- 

 lent to either Jiimself, herself, itself or themselves. 



In German, a reflexive pronoun becomes reciprocal when the intention 

 is to represent the actors in the plural as acting mutually, and to avoid 

 ambiguitj'- the reciprocal word einandcr, one another, is added or substi- 

 tuted for sicA, themselves; this, however, is not the case in the present, 

 as sich is dropped, the reciprocal einander (nan'ner) being sufficient, as, 

 si shnai'la nan'-ner, they cut one another. 



INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS. 



The interrogative pronouns are war, lolio ; was, ichat ; wel'ler, which 

 one ; and, was far en, whot sort of a, or ichat kind of a. These are in- 

 flected like the relative pronouns, excepting was far en, in which en only 

 is inflected, excepting in the plural, where it is omitted in all genders. 



