ego, tu, nos, vos

Personal Pronouns (1st & 2nd Person)

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First and second person pronouns. In the genitive plural, -i forms (nostri, vestri) are used objectively; -um forms (nostrum, vestrum) are used partitively. Both are accepted.

CASE ORDER

Nom. · Gen. · Dat. · Acc. · Abl.

Line Order

1 ego
2 tu
3 nos
4 vos

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Personal and Reflexive Pronouns

Historical Grammar

278. We have the same kinds of pronouns in Latin as in English. They are divided into the following eight classes:

1. Personal pronouns, which show the person speaking, spoken to, or spoken of; as, ego, I; tū, you; is, he. (Cf. § 279. etc.)

2. Possessive pronouns, which denote possession; as, meus, tuus, suus, etc. (Cf. § 98.)

3. Reflexive pronouns, used in the predicate to refer back to the subject; as, he saw himself. (Cf. § 281.)

4. Intensive pronouns, used to emphasize a noun or pronoun; as, I myself saw it. (Cf. § 285.)

5. Demonstrative pronouns, which point out persons or things; as, is, this, that. (Cf. § 112.)

6. Relative pronouns, which connect a subordinate adjective clause with an antecedent; as, quī, who. (Cf. § 220.)

7. Interrogative pronouns, which ask a question; as, quis, who? (Cf. § 225.)

8. Indefinite pronouns, which point out indefinitely; as, some one, any one, some, certain ones, etc. (Cf. § 296.)

279. The demonstrative pronoun is, ea, id, as we learned in § 115, is regularly used as the personal pronoun of the third person (he, she, it, they, etc.).

280. The personal pronouns of the first person are ego, I; nōs, we; of the second person, tū, thou or you; vōs, ye or you. They are declined as follows:

Personal Pronouns — ego, nōs / tū, vōs (D'Ooge § 280)
Singular
	FIRST PERSON	SECOND PERSON
Nom.	ego, I	tū, you
Gen.	meī, of me	tuī, of you
Dat.	mihi, to or for me	tibi, to or for you
Acc.	mē, me	tē, you
Abl.	mē, with, from, etc., me	tē, with, from, etc., you
Plural
Nom.	nōs, we	vōs, you
Gen.	nostrum or nostrī, of us	vestrum or vestrī, of you
Dat.	nōbīs, to or for us	vōbīs, to or for you
Acc.	nōs, us	vōs, you
Abl.	nōbīs, with, from, etc., us	vōbīs, with, from, etc., you

1. The personal pronouns are not used in the nominative excepting for emphasis or contrast.

281. The Reflexive Pronouns. 1. The personal pronouns ego and tū may be used in the predicate as reflexives; as,

Reflexive Pronouns of the First and Second Persons — Model Sentences (D'Ooge § 281)
videō mē, I see myself	vidēmus nōs, we see ourselves
vidēs tē, you see yourself	vidētis vōs, you see yourselves

2. The reflexive pronoun of the third person (himself, herself, itself, themselves) has a special form, used only in these senses, and declined alike in the singular and plural.

Reflexive Pronoun of the Third Person — suī, sibi, sē, sē (D'Ooge § 281)
	Singular and Plural
Gen.	suī	Acc.	sē
Dat.	sibi	Abl.	sē

Reflexive Pronoun of the Third Person — Examples (D'Ooge § 281)
Examples	Puer sē videt, the boy sees himself Puella sē videt, the girl sees herself Animal sē videt, the animal sees itself Iī sē vident, they see themselves

a. The form sē is sometimes doubled, sēsē, for emphasis.

3. Give the Latin for

Reflexive Pronoun — Model Sentences (D'Ooge § 281)
I teach myself	We teach ourselves
You teach yourself	You teach yourselves
He teaches himself	They teach themselves

282. The preposition cum, when used with the ablative of ego, tū, or suī, is appended to the form, as, mēcum, with me; tēcum, with you; nōbīscum, with us; etc.

480. PERSONAL

Appendix — Personal Pronouns: ego, tū, suī (D'Ooge § 480)
	ego, I	tū, you	suī, of himself, etc.
	Sing.	Plur.	Sing.	Plur.	Sing.	Plur.
Nom.	ego	nōs	tū	vōs	——	——
Gen.	meī	nostrum, -trī	tuī	vestrum, -trī	suī	suī
Dat.	mihi	nōbīs	tibi	vōbīs	sibi	sibi
Acc.	mē	nōs	tē	vōs	sē, sēsē	sē, sēsē
Abl.	mē	nōbīs	tē	vōbīs	sē, sēsē	sē, sēsē

Note that suī is always reflexive.

Historical Exercises & Reading

283. EXERCISES

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 294.

I. 1. Mea māter est cāra mihi et tua māter est cāra tibi. 2. Vestrae litterae erant grātae nōbis et nostrae litterae erant grātae vōbīs. 3. Nūntius rēgis quī nōbīscum est nihil respondēbit. 4. Nūntiī pācem amīcitiamque sibi et suīs sociīs postulāvērunt. 5. Sī tū arma sūmēs, ego rēgnum occupābō. 6. Uter vestrum est cīvis Rōmānus? Neuter nostrum. 7. Eō tempore multī supplicium dedērunt quia rēgnum petierant. 8. Sūme supplicium, Caesar, dē hostibus patriae ācribus. 9. Prīmā lūce aliī metū commōtī sēsē fugae mandāvērunt; aliī autem magnā virtūte impetum exercitūs nostrī sustinuērunt. 10. Soror rēgis, ubi dē adversō proeliō audīvit, sēsē Pompēiīs interfēcit.

II. 1. Whom do you teach? I teach myself. 2. The soldier wounded himself with his sword. 3. The master praises us, but you he does not praise. 4. Therefore he will inflict punishment on you, but we shall not suffer punishment. 5. Who will march (i.e. make a march) with me to Rome? 6. I will march with you to the gates of the city. 7. Who will show us1 the way? The gods will show you1 the way.

Loquentes Practice Reference

Our drills practice ego, tū, and suī as presented in D'Ooge §§ 278–282, with the consolidated paradigm from Appendix § 480.