pishno

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Choctaw[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

pishno (first-person paucal)

  1. we (few), us (few), ours (us few's)

Usage notes[edit]

Choctaw usually doesn't use personal pronouns, instead relying on pronominal affixes.

Inflection[edit]

emphatic possessive‡
singular paucal plural singular paucal plural
first-person ano
sashno
pishno hapishno ammi pimmi hapimmi
second-person chishno hachishno chimmi hachimmi
third-person yamma ilap
Recent analogous formation in Mississippi Choctaw. Considered substandard.
First- and second-person are archaic in Mississippi Choctaw, where the emphatic pronouns are used for possession instead.

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