Afrikaans Pronouns

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Afrikaans Pronouns

Learning the Afrikaans Pronouns is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Afrikaans language. But first we need to know what the role of Pronouns is in the structure of the grammar in Afrikaans.

Afrikaans pronouns include personal pronouns (refer to the persons speaking, the persons spoken to, or the persons or things spoken about), indefinite pronouns, relative pronouns (connect parts of sentences) and reciprocal or reflexive pronouns (in which the object of a verb is being acted on by verb's subject).

Here are some examples:

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Pronouns in Afrikaans has a logical pattern. Locate the Pronouns above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Afrikaans.

Note: jy is used in the singular when addressing one person only and informal. julle is used when speaking to more than one person. u is the formal version of you and is used both in the singular and plural.

There no case distinction for ons, julle, and hulle. Also no distinction is made between objective pronouns and possessive pronouns when used before nouns. For example the Afrikaans pronoun my can mean my or me

List of Pronouns in Afrikaans

Below is a list of the Personal pronouns, indefinite pronouns, relative pronouns, reciprocal or reflexive pronouns in Afrikaans placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Afrikaans vocabulary.

Personal pronouns, indefinite pronouns, relative pronouns, reciprocal or reflexive pronouns have a very important role in Afrikaans, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with Afrikaans Pronouns, you might want to check the rest of our Afrikaans lessons here: Learn Afrikaans. Don't forget to bookmark this page.