§143. Personal Pronouns
Ego and tū are declined as follows:—
| FIRST PERSON | ||
| Singular | Plural | |
| NOM. | ego, I | nōs, we |
| GEN. | meī, of me | nostrum, nostrī, of us |
| DAT. | mihi ( mī), to me | nōbīs, to us |
| ACC. | mē, me | nōs, us |
| ABL. | mē, by me | nōbīs, by us |
| SECOND PERSON | ||
| NOM | tū, thou or you | vōs, ye or you |
| GEN. | tuī, of thee or you | vestrum, vestrī; vostrum (-trī) |
| DAT. | tibi | vōbīs |
| ACC. | tē | vōs |
| ABL. | tē | vōbīs |
a. The plural nōs is often used for the singular ego; the plural vōs is never so used for the singular tū.
b. The forms nostrum, vestrum, etc., are used partitively:—
- ūnusquisque nostrum, each one of us.
- vestrum omnium, of all of you.
c. The genitives meī, tuī, suī, nostri, vestrī, are chiefly used objectively (§ 347):—
- memor sīs nostrī, be mindful of us (me).
- mē tuī pudet, I am ashamed of you.
d. Emphatic forms of tū are tūte and tūtemet ( tūtimet). The other cases of the personal pronouns, excepting the genitive plural, are made emphatic by adding -met: as, egomet, vōsmet.
e. Reduplicated forms are found in the accusative and ablative singular: as, mēmē, tētē.
f. The preposition cum, with, is joined enclitically with the ablative: as, tēcum loquitur, he talks with you.
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.