Personal Pronouns

නමක් (noun එකක්) නැවත නැවත කියන්නේ නැතුව ඒ වෙනුවට යොදන වචන තමයි pronouns (සර්වනාම). වාක්‍යයේ ඒ වචනයේ කාර්යය අනුව රූපය වෙනස් වෙනවා: I, me, my, mine, myself. සිංහලෙන් වැඩි විස්තර Personal Pronouns පාඩමේ තියෙනවා.

The whole family

Subject	Object	+ noun	On its own	-self
I	me	my	mine	myself
you	you	your	yours	yourself / yourselves
he	him	his	his	himself
she	her	her	hers	herself
it	it	its	—	itself
we	us	our	ours	ourselves
they	them	their	theirs	themselves

Don't try to learn the table in one go. Learn it one column at a time, with the examples below.

1. Subject: who does the action

Before the verb.

Subject

I am an engineer.
Nimal is angry. He wants you to say sorry.
This table is old. It needs painting.
They don't eat fish.

2. Object: who gets the action

After a verb, or after a word like to, with, for, from.

Object

Give the book to me.
The teacher wants to talk to you.
He's hurt because Kasun hit him.
Tell them to hurry up!

3. My, your, his… + a noun

These always come before a noun.

Before a noun

Did Amma find my slippers?
Nimali will fix her bike tomorrow.
The cat broke its leg.
Where is their school?

4. Mine, yours, hers… on their own

These replace the noun, so there's no noun after them.

On their own

This bag is mine.
That car is ours.
My phone's dead. Can I use yours?

5. Myself, yourself… (-self words)

When the doer and the receiver are the same person:

Doing it to yourself

He hurt himself on the stairs.
I told myself to calm down.
The children can look after themselves.

To say "nobody else did it":

Nobody else

I made this cake myself. 🎂
The teacher didn't know the answer herself.

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