E aanak makayáng ammo (seemingly). The boy will be tall. Genders are not distinguished by different forms. The personal pronoun appears in two forms: INDEPENDENT FORMS (1) The independent forms, which can be used by themselves alone to designate the corresponding persons: The difference between sikame and sikatayo consists in that the latter includes besides the speaker and his party the party addressed, while the former excludes the party addressed. Accordingly sikame will be heard, for instance, in a respectful report to a superior; sikatayo, on the contrary, in familiar talk among equals. The same propriety in speaking is found in Ilocano, Tagalog, etc., but is especially noteworthy among Igorot who otherwise address everybody, high or low, with sikam (thou), after the fashion of the Tyrolese mountaineers. These pronouns form the genitive with nan and the dative with sun. Thus: Nan sikam, sun sikáto, etc.; si era, however, drops the si in these cases: Nan era, sun era. From the following examples it will be seen that the pronoun carries with it, like the noun and the adjective, the meaning of "to be:". Sikak e makaamta. Sepai e angidai niai? Insasko sun sikáto. Ubing ko si era. Sepai sikam? Examples I am the one who takes care (of the thing spoken about). Who brought this? We (did). I have seen him. They are my servants. FORMS USED ONLY IN COMPOSITION (2) The forms used only joined to other words, the monosyllabic pronouns thus becoming all but affixes: 1 Sometimes also nak or na, apparently for euphonic reasons. The pronouns given in this table can, in the first place, be used, with the exception of to, in the way shown by the following examples: The possessive pronoun is represented by the genitive of the lastmentioned forms: 1 In this instance, as well as everywhere in these notes, I use the English present tense, which colloquially stands also for the future, for what appears to be an equally ambiguous Nabaloi tense. |