Object Pronouns: Accusative & Dative
செயப்படுபொருள் பிரதிபெயர்கள்: -ஐ & -க்கு
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
இலக்கண ஒப்பீடு
Pronoun case forms vs. Tamil pronoun suffixes
ich → mich (accusative) → mir (dative)
நான் → என்னை (accusative) → எனக்கு (dative)
Tamil builds object pronoun forms by adding the same case suffixes you already use on nouns: நான் ('I') plus -ஐ gives என்னை ('me'), and நான் plus the dative gives எனக்கு ('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 Tamil exactly; only the mechanism, suffix versus distinct word, differs.
Vocabulary
சொற்கள்
| German | Pronunciation | Tamil | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| mich | mikh | என்னைeṉṉai | me (accusative) |
| dich | dikh | உன்னைuṉṉai | you (accusative, informal) |
| ihn | een | அவனைavaṉai | him (accusative) |
| sie | zee | அவளைavaḷai | her (accusative) |
| mir | meer | எனக்குenakku | to/for me (dative) |
| dir | deer | உனக்குunakku | to/for you (dative, informal) |
| ihm | eem | அவனுக்குavanukku | to/for him (dative) |
| ihr | eer | அவளுக்குavaḷukku | to/for her (dative) |