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Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives (1st and 2nd persons)

How do you say the following words in Latin?

 I–  we –
 you sg –  you pl –

These personal pronouns change their cases just as nouns do, depending on what role they play in
the sentence.

Fill in the table below with the different cases of the 1 st and 2nd personal pronouns:

1st person 2nd person


Sg Nom I You
Acc Me You
Gen Of me Of you
Dat To/for me To/for you
Abl By/with/from me By/with/from you
Pl Nom We You
Acc Us You
Gen Of us Of you
Dat To/for us To/for you
Abl By/with/from us By/with/from you

Like any noun, these pronouns can be used with prepositions. Note especially the prepositions cum
(__________________), which takes the __________________ case. When this is used with the
personal pronouns, it is attached to the end of the word, so:

mecum (with me), tecum (with you), nobiscum (with us), vobiscum (with you).

Note that in addition to using the genitives mei, tui, nostrum, vestrum to denote possession, you can
also use a possessive adjective. These are as follows and are all 2-1-2 in declension:

 My –  Our –
 Your (sg) –  Your (pl) –

Remember that adjectives agree with the noun they describe in:

1.
2.
3.
Please have a go at translating the following sentences into English:

1. unde venisti tu? ubi habitas tu?

2. mecum in agros meos ambulate, amici!

3. ego vinum bibi, tu aquam.

4. fratres mei tuos non timent.

5. materne mea donum tibi et patri tuo dedit?

6. rex noster malus est; ad terram igitur vestram mox fugiemus.

7. milites nos ceperunt et ad ducem traxerunt.

8. mater pecuniam cibumque nobis tradidit.

9. mare nostrum est; naves nostrae semper vincunt.

10. pater noster nobiscum ad insulam navigavit.

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