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3 unusual facts about German pronouns


German pronouns

Archaically, the unflected possessive pronoun can be used instead, e.g. Vergißmeinnicht (instead of: "vergiß meiner nicht" or—vergessen takes the accusative as well—"vergiss mich nicht" in more modern form).

The German personal pronouns must always have the same gender, same number, and same case as their antecedents.

Possessive

In German the two sets of forms are quite similar (for example, the genitive of ich "I" is meiner, the corresponding possessive pronoun is also meiner in the masculine singular nominative, and the possessive determiner is mein with various endings).



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