Object Pronouns: Accusative & Dative
ಕರ್ಮ ಸರ್ವನಾಮಗಳು: -ನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು -ಗೆ
Just as nouns change shape for the accusative and dative cases, so do pronouns — and German gives each pronoun a genuinely different word for 'me', not just a suffix.
Grammar Comparison
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Pronoun case forms vs. Kannada pronoun suffixes
ich → mich (accusative) → mir (dative)
ನಾನು → ನನ್ನನ್ನು (accusative) → ನನಗೆ (dative)
Kannada builds object pronoun forms by adding the same case suffixes you already use on nouns: ನಾನು ('I') plus -ಅನ್ನು gives ನನ್ನನ್ನು ('me'), and ನಾನು plus the dative -ಗೆ gives ನನಗೆ ('to me'). German pronouns instead become entirely different-looking words for each case — ich/mich/mir bear little resemblance to one another. The underlying logic (subject form vs. object form vs. indirect-object form) matches Kannada exactly; only the mechanism, suffix versus distinct word, differs.
Vocabulary
ಪದಗಳು
- Kannada
- ನನ್ನನ್ನುnannannu
- English
- me (accusative)
- Kannada
- ನಿನ್ನನ್ನುninnannu
- English
- you (accusative, informal)
- Kannada
- ಅವನನ್ನುavanannu
- English
- him (accusative)
- Kannada
- ಅವಳನ್ನುavalannu
- English
- her (accusative)
- Kannada
- ನನಗೆnanage
- English
- to/for me (dative)
- Kannada
- ನಿನಗೆninage
- English
- to/for you (dative, informal)
- Kannada
- ಅವನಿಗೆavanige
- English
- to/for him (dative)
- Kannada
- ಅವಳಿಗೆavalige
- English
- to/for her (dative)