Pronouns

Pronouns are words that take inflection and can usually be used instead of a noun. There are many different kind of pronouns in East Cree. For example, personal pronouns tell us about the role in conversation like ‘you’, ‘I’, ‘she’ or ‘he’. Demonstrative pronouns indicate the proximity of persons and things relative to the place of speaking: ‘this one’, ‘that one’. Pronouns are used for various purposes. Here are the pronouns and their uses in Southern East Cree.

• Personal pronouns: Personal emphatic pronouns, personal prefixes and personal inclusive pronouns
• Alternative pronouns for choosing another person or thing
• Indefinite pronouns: someone or something
• Interrogative pronouns for asking about persons or things, places or selections
• Dubitative pronouns to wonder about people and things or places
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Absentative pronouns to talk about missing people or things
• Hesitation pronouns
• Focus pronouns to show who or what is more important