What is a reflexive pronoun? Examples of personal and possessive pronouns

A pronoun - what is it? What categories do they share? Answers to the questions you will find in the materials of this article. In addition, your attention will be presented to several proposals, which use both a personal, possessive, and a reflexive pronoun.

General information

A pronoun is a word that does not call a feature, object or quantity, but merely points to them. It should be specially noted that they are characterized by a generalized meaning, and not a specific lexical meaning.

Ranks

By value, all pronouns are divided into 9 categories. The predominant part of them causes certain difficulties during the study. But if we understand the meaning of these pronouns and the principle of their division, then it is quite easy to remember such digits.

So, in Russian there are the following pronouns:

• Personal;
• Returnable;
• Possessive;
• Undefined;
• Relative;
• Interrogative;
• Negative;
• Identification;
• Indicative.

Each of the presented ranks can include from one to 25 pronouns. In this article, we will consider in detail only the first three.

The return pronoun

This part of speech expresses the direction of action on the subject of the action. Let's give an example:

• I see myself from the outside.
• I look at myself in the mirror.

The reflexive pronoun may tend by case:

• The genitive and accusative cases are themselves .
• The dative and prepositional cases are for themselves .
• The instrumental case is itself, itself.

However, the nominative case does not exist in this part of the speech. Moreover, the return pronoun does not change by person, birth and number.

The group of return pronouns

Such group contains the following reflexive pronouns: "self" (used to indicate the person in question) and "one's own" (to indicate the belonging of an object to a particular person). The task of these pronouns is the indication of an already named participant of a particular event or belonging to it. For example: "He is proud of himself and his daughter."

It should also be noted that the word "he" itself refers to the return pronouns ( She herself got up ). In addition, this part of speech (the form of "self") formed the postfix of the return verbs -sa .

How do the reflexive pronouns (examples) change?

As stated above, the pronoun of the recurrent category "itself" does not have an initial form. This word only changes in indirect cases. In addition, it can refer to absolutely any personal pronoun:

• "He looked at himself in the mirror."
• "She looked at herself in the mirror."
• "They looked at themselves in the mirror."

What role does the proposal play?

In the sentence, such pronouns serve as a complement. For example: I wanted to pamper myself and present myself with a small gift . By the way, in the form of the dative case, this part of speech should be distinguished from a particle approximated by its value:

• She found a job.
• Help yourself.
• He goes to himself and does not think about anything at all.
• The concert was not very, so-so.

In such proposals, the word "self" is not singled out independently, but is emphasized by the member to whom it refers.

The pronoun is returnable in English

Return pronouns in English are formed by adding the words my, your, our to possessive pronouns; Undefined - one; Personal - her, him, them, it. Also, endings -selves (plural) and -self (singular) can be assigned to this part of the speech. Let's give some examples:

• 1st person singular. H. - myself (translated "myself");
• 2nd person singular. H. - yourself (translated "you yourself" or "you yourself");
• 3rd person singular. H. - herself (translated "she herself");
• 3rd person singular. H. - himself (translated "he himself");
• 3rd person singular. H. - itself (it is translated "it itself");
• 1st person of sets. H. - ourselves (we translate "we ourselves");
• 2nd person of sets. H. - yourselves (translated "you yourself");
• 3rd person of sets. H. - themselves (translated "they themselves").

It should be noted that the reflexive English pronouns are used together with verbs in the meaning of the recurrence of an action, and also in the meaning of "self", which quite often corresponds to the end of Russian return verbs-for example: shaving, washing, dressing:

• I've hurt myself (that is, I was hurt).
• Help yourself (that is, treat).

Personal pronouns

Now you know which return pronouns exist.

The Russian language is rich and diverse. And besides the reflexive pronouns, it includes 8 different digits. One such is a personal pronoun. It should be noted that it is used in everyday life most often. After all, personal pronouns refer to a specific person, which is in question in conversation. They are: we, I, you, you, they, he, it, she, she . For example:

• I love you.
• She loves him.
• We love you.

The pronouns of the 2nd and the 1st person denote the immediate participants in the speech ( we, I, you, you ). Pronouns of the third person indicate those who do not take part in the conversation ( he, she, she, they ).

In the Russian language, this part of speech is changed by case, number and person, and by birth (only in the 3rd person singular).

By the way, in some foreign languages there are also indefinite-personal pronouns. As a rule, they are used to replace an arbitrary subject. And regardless of gender.

Possessive pronouns

This part of speech indicates the belonging of any object, object or property to a particular object, object, subject, and so on. ( Yours, mine, your, yours, ours, its, its, them ). Let's give some examples:

• My son is the best.
• This is your portfolio.
• Our marriage.
• His ego is too big.

Possessive pronouns can be changed by numbers, persons, cases and births. However, the words of the third person ( her, his, them ) do not bow. In this connection, they always adjoin to the nouns determined by the names.