Personal Pronouns

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Personal Pronouns
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Subject Pronouns

• Subject pronouns are used to replace a noun in a
  sentence to avoid repeating the name over and
  over.
• Ex Mr Crookshank drove home, then Mr Crookshank
  went to the store and finally Mr Crookshank went
  to bed.
• Here we can replace the Mr Crookshank with the
  subject pronoun he.

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Subject Pronouns

• Here are the following German Subject Pronouns
  and their English counterparts.
• ich- I wir- we
• du- you(sing/informal) ihr- yall
• er/sie/es- he/she/it Sie- you(s/p/f)
• sie- they
• Notice that the work ich is not capitalized in
  German unless it begins a sentence.

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The word it

• Up til now you have learned that the word es
  means it.
• This is the case if the noun you are substituting
  is neuter.
• If the noun you are replacing is feminine or
  masculine you must use sie or er.
• Ex
• Der Tisch ist gross. Die Tafel ist schmutzig.
• Er ist gross. Sie ist schmutzig.

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Direct Object Pronouns

• Of course we all know that the accusative case
  refers to direct objects, or word that are
  receiving the action of the verb.
• We also remember that der changes to den and
  ein changes to einen.
• A change also occurs when we replace a direct
  object with a pronoun.

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Direct Object Pronouns

• Think of the following English sentence
• I see Mr Crookshank.
• If we are to replace the Direct Object with a
  pronoun we would choose he
• I see he.
• However this is not correct English.
• I see him.
• There, now its perfect. Our pronouns change too
  when the are in the role of the direct object!

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Direct Objects

• Lets look at the following German examples
• Ich sehe Mr. Crookshank
• Ich sehe er.
• Ich sehe ihn.
• Er liebt du.
• Er liebt dich.

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Direct Object Pronouns

• Here are the direct object pronouns. Notice that
  sie,sie,Sie dont change!
• ich- mich wir-uns
• du- dich ihr- euch
• er/sie/es- ihn/sie/es sie/Sie-sie/Sie

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Things to remember!

• Subject pronoun replace the subject(nominative)
• The word it is dependant on the gender of the
  noun being replaced
• Direct Object pronouns replace the direct
  object(accusative)