3 rd Person Pronouns

1. 3rd Person Pronouns Chapter 12

2. Review of Use of Pronouns • Pronouns are used in both Latin and English to replace nouns: • The man watches the television show. = He watches it. • Will plays Mario Brothers. = He plays it. • Grandma and Grandpa watched Anna’s recital. They watched her recital. = They watched her recital.

3. Review of Pronouns in Latin • The case of a pronoun is determined by its use in the sentence. • A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in gender and number. • The antecedent is the word that the pronoun replaces. • Example: The boy rides his bike to school. He rides his bike to school. Boy is the antecedent of “He.”

4. 3rd Person Pronouns (Singular) • Study the following chart: *With is only an example. Insert whatever preposition is named in the text.

5. 3rd Person Pronouns Plural • Study the following chart for third person, PLURAL pronouns:

6. Use of 3rd Person Pronouns • Notice that the translations of the cases are very familiar, just as they were with 1st and 2nd person pronouns: • Nominative case is still used as subject. The use of the pronoun emphasizes the subject, although you could tell the subject by looking at the ending of the verb. • Genitive case still uses “of” (possession). • Dative case still uses “to” or “for” (indirect object), • Accusative is still used for direct objects. • Ablative case is still used with prepositions.

7. Examples • They tell itto her. • Eiei id narrant. • Eiis nominative, plural---subject. Although you can tell the subject by looking at the ending of the verb, the eiadds emphasis. • Id is accusative, singular, neuter---direct object. • Eiis dative, singular, feminine---indirect object. • They walked to herhouse. • Ei ad eiuscasamambulaverunt. • Eiis nominative, plural--subject. • Eiusis genitive, singular, feminine---indirect object.