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 ﻿The nominative on and its corresponding feminine and neuter forms are supplied to the pronoun of the third person from another source. (Cf. onen, ona, ono, that.) The rest of the cases are, as will be observed, cognate with the suffixes of the oblique cases of the definite adjective.

The form of the accusative neuter is peculiar, because in all other instances the accusative of the neuter is identical with the nominative. In Old Slavonic the nominative was n, nace.

The genitive case of the pronoun 3rd person jeho (ejus, avTov) is used as a possessive, in the same way as in Greek and Latin, as kůň. jeho, his horse, both for the masculine and neuter ; jeji, her (ejus, avrijs)), for the feminine, and jejich or jich, their (eorum, earum, ovtZv). With words in the plural the form jejich is used for the fern. sing, (ejus, avríji).

The oblique cases of the pronouns in the 3rd person take the letter -n when they are preceded by a preposition; but this addition does not take place when the genitive jeho, ji, &c, serves as a possessive pronoun, e.g.: šlí sme do jeho zahrady, we went into his garden; but šlí sme k nim, we went to them.

The peculiarity of the reflexive pronoun in the Bohemian and other Slavonic languages is that it may be employed indiscriminately for all the three persons ; and the same may be said of the possessive adjective svůj, which is always reflexive, like the Latin suus.

The short forms mi, h\ si are enclitics, and cannot be used at the beginning of a sentence ; nor can they be employed after prepositions, as u mne, at my house ; k tobl, to thee.

The datives ti and vám can be used ethically, as in Latin and Greek. In the case of // even the i is frequently ejected at

. The Reflexive Pronoun.

N. -

G. sebe, se D. sobe, si

A. sebe, se I. sebou L. v sobe.