Pronouns - နာမ္စား စကားလံုးမ်ား

Pronouns - နာမ္စား စကားလံုးမ်ား

Eight Kinds of Pronouns -- နာမ္စား (၈) မ်ဳိး

1.      Personal Pronoun -- ပုဂၢဳိလ္ျပနာမ္စား

I, We, You, You, He, She, It, They

Ø  I am a hermit.

Ø  You are nun.

2.      Possessive Pronoun -- ပိုင္ဆိုင္မႈျပနာမ္စား

Mine, Ours, Yours, Yours, His, Hers, Its, Theirs

Ø  This book is mine.

Ø  Is this hat yours?

3.      Reflexive Pronoun -- တုန္႔ျပန္မႈျပနာမ္စား

Myself, Ourselves, Yourself, Yourselves, Himself, Herself, Itself, Themselves

Ø  I myself study English grammar.

Ø  She cuts herself.

4.      Demonstrative Pronoun -- ညႊန္ျပ နာမ္စား

This (ဤဟာ)၊ These (ဤဟာမ်ား)

That (ထိုဟာ)၊ Those (ထိုဟာမ်ား)

Ø  This is my car.

Ø  Those are the children’s toys.

5.      Indefinite Pronoun -- မတိက်ေသာ နာမ္စား

Any = တစ္စံုတစ္ခု , none = ဘာမွမ႐ွိ၊ ဘာမွမဟုတ္, all =  အားလံုးေသာ, many = အေျမာက္အမ်ား, few = နည္းေသာ, some = အခ်ဳိ႕, a few = အနည္းငယ္ေသာ, a little = အနည္းငယ္ေသာ, much = အမ်ားအျပား, another = အျခားတစ္ခု, others = အျခားအရာမ်ား၊ အျခားပုဂၢဳိလ္မ်ား, someone = တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္, everyone = လူတိုင္း၊ အရာတိုင္း, anything = ဘာမဆို, something = တစ္စံုတစ္ခု, everything = အရာတိုင္း, anywhere = ဘယ္ေနရာမဆို, nothing = ဘာမွမ႐ွိ၊ ဘာမွမဟုတ္, anyone = တစ္ခုခု၊ ဘယ္သူမဆို , anybody = မည္သူမဆို, everyone = လူတိုင္း, one = တစ္ခုခု၊ ဘယ္သူမဆို, everbody = လူတိုင္း, somebody = တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္,

Ø  All are teenagers.

Ø  I like everything.

Ø  Do you have any books?

Yes, I have some books.

No, I don’t have any books.

6.      Distributive Pronoun -- ခြဲေဝျပနာမ္စား

Each (တစ္ေယာက္စီ)  

Either (ႏွစ္ေယာက္ထဲက တစ္ေယာက္)

Neither (ႏွစ္ခု/ေယာက္ထဲမွ ဘာမွ..မဟုတ္)

Ø  Each of the girls loves wearing royal orchid.

Ø  Either of the students will be punished.

Ø  Neither of the winners won the prize.

Note: either ႏွင့္ neither တုိ႔ကိုသံုးေသာအခါ လူႏွစ္ေယာက္/ ပစၥည္းႏွစ္ခုသာ႐ွိရသည္။ ထိုထက္ပိုက any, anyone, none တို႔ကိုသံုးသည္။

7.      Interrogative Pronoun -- အေမးနာမ္စား

Who - ဘယ္သူသည္(Subject - ကတၱားအတြက္)

·         Who understands the question?

San San understands the question.  

Whom - ဘယ္သူ႔ကို (Object - ကံပုဒ္အတြက္)

·         Whom do you see in the class? 

You see San San in the class.

            Whose  - ဘယ္သူ၏ (ပိုင္ဆိုင္မႈကိုျပ)

·         Whose is this book?

It is San San’s.

With whom - ဘယ္သူႏွင့္

With whom do you live at No.23, U Ottama Road, East Ward, Kyaukphru, Arakan?

Whom/Who do you live with at No.23, U Ottama Road, East Ward, Kyaukphru, Arakan?

·         You live with San San at No.23, U Ottama Road, East Ward, Kyaukphru, Arakan.

What  -  ဘာက၊ ဘာလဲ၊ ဘယ္ဟာ၊ ဘယ္အရာ (Sub and Obj - ကတၱားႏွင့္ ကံ ႏွစ္ခုလံုးအတြက္)

·         What makes you angry?

The noisy makes you angry.

·         What did you eat yesterday?

You ate an apple yesterday.

·         What is this?

This is a book.

Which - ဘယ္ဟာ

·         Which do you like, this book or that book?

·         Which are your books, these or those?

Which of + the + Plural (books)

·         Which of the books do you like?

Which of those + Plural

·         Which of those girls is your honey?

How many of the + Plural –

How many + Plural

How much + U .N (milk)

For what - ဘာအတြက္

With what - ဘာႏွင့္

Preposition + whom  (For whom)

8.      Relative Pronoun -- ဆက္သြယ္နာမ္စား

Who, whom, which, what, that

Ø  Professor Dr. Thar Zan, who is 45 years old, is my maths teacher.

Ø  Did you get the book (which) I sent to you last month?

Ø  Su Su, whom Kyaw Zan proposed last year, is my pet friend.