56: pronoun tables

about "this" and "that"mmmmmmmmm ^ M- C+ 1178

These nounbases mean "this" --

idam- "this"

etad- "this"

These nounbases mean "that" --

tad- "that"

adas- "that"

tyad- "that" -- rarely used outside of the veda

etad- "this"mmmmmmmmm ^ M- C+ 1179

etad- means "this", same as idam-. Grammatically, it works exactly like tad-, but with an e added in front --

tad- n + su →svamorna tad "this"

tad vezma "that house"

etad vezma "this house"

That added e appears to cause kric in front of sas sA --

tad- m + su → sas m "that"

eSas m "this"

sA f "that"

eSA f "this"

siMhy eSA "this lioness"

etattado works on eSas --

siMha:: eSaH "this lion"

eSa siMhaH "this lion"

When meaning "this", etad- is used less often than idam-. But you'll hear a lot of etad- in the sense of "look!, here it is!, here you have!, voilà!" --

siMha:: eSaH "look, here's the lion!"

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tad- "that".mmmmmmmmm ^ M- C+ 1180

Properly speaking, tad- only means "that", ie it is used to refer to what is not nearby.

Yet, you should often translate tad- as "the", "he", "she", "it", "they", if that makes better English.

Notice that Sanskrit does not have words that exactly translate "he she it they". To mean third persons, you preferentially use no pronoun at all --

carati "he / she walks"

or pronouns meaning "this" or "that", as in --

sa carati "that one walks, he walks"

sA carati "that one walks, she walks"

eSa carati "this one walks, he walks"

eSA carati "this one walks, she walks"

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Pronoun tables.mmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1181

idam- "this, these" idam masculine idam feminine idam neuter

etad- "this, these" -- etad masculine etad neuter etad feminine

tad- "that, those" tad masculine tad neuter tad feminine

adas- "that, those" adas masculine adas feminine adas neuter

kim- "which one(s)?" -- kim masculine kim neuter kim feminine

yad- "the one(s) that" -- yad masculine yad neuter yad feminine

yuSmad- "you" yuSmad all genders

asmad- "I, we, us" asmad all genders

yuSmad- asmad- tables.mmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1182

These tables show the nounbases yuSmad- "you" and asmad- "I, we" combined with the twenty-one sup affixes. The greens link to the rules that make each form.

Table of yuSmad- "you".

tvam yuvAm yUyam yuSmad- asmad- with first

tvAm yuvAm yuSmAn yuSmad- asmad- with second

tvayA yuvAbhyAm yuSmAbhis yuSmad- asmad- with third

tubhyam yuvAbhyAm yuSmabhyam yuSmad- asmad- with fourth

tvattas tvat yuvAbhyAm yuSmattas yuSmat yuSmad- asmad- with fifth

tava yuvayos yuSmAkam yuSmad- asmad- with sixth

tvayi yuvayos yuSmAsu yuSmad- asmad- with seventh

hanger forms --

amauTchaS

tvA vAm vas

GebhyAmbhyas and GasosAm