Viktoro | Re: Personal pronouns - The most simple solution

• Autor: Viktoro (“vixcafe”)
• Tema: Re: Personal pronouns - The most simple solution
• Data: 2002-09-17 01:05
• Mesaje: 93 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

--- In europidgin@y..., "Paul O. BARTLETT" <bartlett@s...> wrote:

>
>     Because 'we' is not really multiple instances of 'I' and
> 'you-plural' is not really mutliple instances of 'you-singular',
> personally I would be willing to go with a separate form kfor eash.
>
In Chinese, 'we' is plural 'I':

Mandarin pronouns...
wo3 - I
wo3men - we
ni3 - you (singular)
ni3men - you (plural)
ta1 - he, she ,it
ta1men - they

--Viktoro

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