Fortunately in Melanau the pronouns do not chance to the grammatical cases mentioned above. The melanau pronouns maintain their form in any cases.
Pronoun is a word that substitute a noun. example of pronouns are I, You, Me, He, She,Them, We and Us.
In english pronouns change their form due to certain grammatical cases like Nominative, Accusative, Dative or Genitive. Look at the example below:
He goes to school- here the pronoun "HE" is in nominative case i.e "HE" is now the subject of the sentence
Ali saw him yesterday- here "HIM" is in accusative case i.e the direct object of the sentence. The original form of "HIM" is "HE"
Ali gave him the book- here "HIM" is in dative case i.e. the indirect object of the sentence.
That is his book- here "HIS" is in genitive case i.e the owner of the object in the sentence.
Fortunately in Melanau the pronouns do not chance to the grammatical cases mentioned above. The melanau pronouns maintain their form in any cases.
eg.
Nominative: He goes to school- Siyén mapun skul
Accusative: Ali saw him yesterday- Ali peden siyén mabei
Dative: Ali gave him the book- Ali pejuah buk yen gak siyén
Genitive: That is his book- Yen buk siyén
Here is a complete list of melanau pronouns in Mukah Dialect.
Extra: Muwa- both of us
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| 1st Person | Akou (I) | Tua (You & I) | Melou (We) |
| 2nd Person | Ka'au ( You) | Kedua (both of you) | Kelou (you) |
| 3rd Person | siyén (he,she) yén (it) | lou yén dua (both of them) | lou yén (they) |
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