Language/Paraguayan-guarani/Grammar/Pronouns

Guarani personal pronouns

Personal pronouns in Guarani are mostly the same as the prefixes used with chendal verbs. They include first person and second person singular, third person (no distinction between singular and plural), first person plural inclusive, first person plural exclusive and second person plural.

		singular	plural
1st person	inclusive	che	ñande
	exclusive		ore
2nd person		nde	peẽ
3rd person		haʼe	haʼekuéra/ hikuái (*)

• Hikuái is a Post-verbal pronoun (oHecha hikuái – they see )

Reflexive pronoun: je: ahecha ("I look"), ajehecha ("I look at myself")

Guarani demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The demonstrative pronouns 'this' in English is 'ko' in Guarani.

ko aranduka	this book
ko tapicha	this person
ko mesa	this table
ko yva mansana	this apple
ko kavaju	this horse

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarani_language
• https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Guarani/Grammar