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Rh (literally, the book of ourselves). Könyve is in both instances in the third person singular.

Note.—The reflective pronoun is often—ungrammatically—used to express solitude; as, magam vagyok, instead of egyedül vagyok = I am by myself.

Of demonstrative pronouns there are three kinds:—


 * (a) those which point to a substantive (thing or person) are called substantival;
 * (b) those which refer to the quality or some peculiarity of the substantive, called adjectival; and
 * (c) those which point to the quantity of the substantive, called numerical.

Examples of class a are:


 * ez, this; emez, this here; ugyanez, this same; for things near; and
 * az, that; amaz, that there; ugyanaz, that same; for things at a distance.

There are, further: ezen, ugyanezen; and azon, ugyanazon; which are in meaning the same as, ez, ugyanez; or az, ugyanaz, in so far as each points to a thing (near or distant) out of many. There is, however, a shade of distinction among these two