Pronouns
Pronouns are words like "I", "you", "she", and so on, which stand in place of nouns in a sentence.
Personal Pronouns
Below is a table of Koolaŋ's personal pronouns:
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| First Person | me (I/me) | we (we/us) |
| Second Person | you (you) | yal (you all) |
| Third Person |
he (he/him) še (she/her) it (it) ðem (they/them, gender-neutral) |
ðey (they/them) |
Notice how Koolaŋ has a unique pronoun for the plural version of "you", for when you're talking to multiple people and want to refer to all of them. This is unlike in English (although English does have phrases such as "you all", "all of you", and "y'all"). Also pay attention to the difference between "ðem" and "ðey": "ðem" is the singular gender-neutral sense of "they", whereas "ðey" is the plural "they" used to refer to multiple people.
Pronouns do not change depending on whether they are the subject or object of a sentence.
- Me love še, še love me "I love her, she loves me"
Posessive Pronouns
Koolaŋ pronouns do not have separate posessive forms ("my", "your", "his", etc). Instead you can just place a bare pronoun right before a noun, and it's understood as being posessive.
- Še house "Her house" (literally "She house")
- Me blue kar "My blue car" (literally "Me blue car")
Reflexive Pronouns
Koolaŋ has a single reflexive pronoun, self. It is equivalent to any English pronoun ending with '-self' (myself, yourself, themselves, etc).
- Še see self in ðe miror "She sees herself in the mirror"
- You hit self "You hit yourself"
Reciprocal Pronouns
The word eacoðer is a reciprocal pronoun, meaning "each other".
- Ðey love eacoðer "They love each other"