Object Pronouns: Accusative & Dative
കർമ്മ സർവ്വനാമങ്ങൾ: -എ & -ക്ക്
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
വ്യാകരണ താരതമ്യം
Pronoun case forms vs. Malayalam pronoun suffixes
ich → mich (accusative) → mir (dative)
ഞാൻ → എന്നെ (accusative) → എനിക്ക് (dative)
Malayalam builds object pronoun forms from a shared oblique base (enn-) plus the same case endings you already use on nouns: ഞാൻ ('I') gives എന്നെ ('me') in the accusative and എനിക്ക് ('to me') in the dative. 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 Malayalam exactly; only the mechanism, suffix-on-a-shared-base versus distinct word, differs.
Vocabulary
വാക്കുകൾ
- Malayalam
- എന്നെenne
- English
- me (accusative)
- Malayalam
- നിന്നെninne
- English
- you (accusative, informal)
- Malayalam
- അവനെavane
- English
- him (accusative)
- Malayalam
- അവളെavale
- English
- her (accusative)
- Malayalam
- എനിക്ക്enikku
- English
- to/for me (dative)
- Malayalam
- നിനക്ക്ninakku
- English
- to/for you (dative, informal)
- Malayalam
- അവന്avanu
- English
- to/for him (dative)
- Malayalam
- അവൾക്ക്avalkku
- English
- to/for her (dative)