Personal, Demonstrative And Interrogative German Pronouns

Pronouns are words that often take the place of nouns or groups of nouns. They are used to avoid having to repeat things.

Personal Pronouns

Personal pronouns represent the speaker or the person or spoken to. They can also replace a person, a noun or a group of nouns. Depending on their role in the sentence their form reflect the appropriate grammatical case.

Singular

	1st person	2nd person		3rd person
			masculine	neuter	faminine
nominative	ich	du	er	es	sie
accusative	mich	dich	ihn	es	sie
dative	mir	dir	ihm	ihm	ihr
genitive	meiner	deiner	seiner	seiner	ihrer

plural

	1st person	2nd person	3rd person	polite form
nominative	wir	ihr	sie	Sie
accusative	uns	euch	sie	Sie
dative	uns	euch	ihnen	Ihnen
genitive	unser/unserer	euer/eurer	ihrer	Ihrer

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Possessive Article and Possessive pronouns

A possessive article indicates the person something belong to

1st person	ich	I	mein	my
	wir	we	unser	our
2nd person	du	you	dein	your
	Sie	you (formal)	Ihr	your
	ihr	you (plural)	euer	your
	Sie	you (formal,plural)	Ihr	your
3nd person	er	he	sein	his
	es	it	sein	its
	sie	she	ihr	her
	sie	they	ihr	their

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Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns “demonstrate” whether something is here or there.
The words that can be used as demonstrative pronouns in German are:

der, die, das	this/that
dieser	this
jener	that
solcher	such
derjenige	the one
derselbe	the same

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Interrogative Pronouns

Interrogative pronouns are used when asking questions.

• To ask about person use wer?
• To ask about thing use was?

When use interrogative pronouns together with propositions. We have to distinguish a person and a thing.

• To ask about person use wer?
• To ask about thing use wo?

Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns
Reflexive pronouns only occur in the accusative and dative form.

	accusative	dative
ich	mich	mir
du	dich	dir
er/sie/es	sich	sich
wir	uns	uns
ihr	euch	euch
sie/Sie	sich	sich

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