Personal Pronouns – All Skloni

As we know, nouns in Slovene are used in six different declensions, known as skloni. It is the same for personal pronoun. A little bit more complex than English, the main role of the Slovene pronoun is also to “replace” the noun by using a shorter version and avoiding the repetition of the noun.

All at once, the personal pronoun, osebni zaimek, can be quite difficult to remember. That’s why we will go step-by-step. Also, before applying personal pronouns for all skloni, I suggest that you be familiar with the use of each sklon (Learn more about Slovene Nouns & Pronouns).

Zx with the number of sklon in subscripts will be used to indicate the personal pronoun of that specific sklon. — Some personal pronouns has a long and short version.

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First, Second and Fourth Sklon

By now, you should know very well what the Personal pronoun in the First Sklon – Nominative are, and I will use them in the table as a reference.

Table for Z₁, Z₂ and Z₄:

Z1	Z2	Z4
jaz	mene, me	mene, me
ti	tebe, te	tebe, te
on / ono	njega, ga	njega, ga
ona	nje, je	njo, jo
midva / medve	naju	naju
vidva / vedve	vaju	vaju
onadva / onidve	njiju, ju	njiju, ju
mi / me	nas	nas
vi / ve	vas	vas
oni / one / ona	njih, jih	njih, jih

As you can see, most of the personal pronouns in  Second Sklon – Genitive and Fourth Sklon – Accusative are basically the same. The only difference is with ona.

Do you see the link: Ne gledam televizije2 → Ne gledam je2. VS Gledam televizijo4 → Gledam jo4.

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Third, Fourth and Fifth Sklon

Z1	Z3	Z4	Z5
jaz	meni, mi	mene, me	meni
ti	tebi, ti	tebe, te	tebi
on / ono	njemu, mu	njega, ga	njem
ona	njej, ji	njo, jo	njej
midva /medve	nama	naju	naju
vidva / vedve	vama	vaju	vaju
onadva / onidve	njima, jima	njiju, ju	njiju
mi / me	nam	nas	nas
vi / ve	vam	vas	vas
oni / one / ona	njim, jim	njih, jih	njih

The personal pronouns in the Third Sklon – Dative, Fourth Sklon – Accusative and Fifth Sklon – Locative have a lot of similarities:

• most of the singular person in Z₃ and Z₅ are the same and
• most of the dual and plural  person in Z₄ and Z₅ are the same.

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Third and Sixth Sklon

Z1	Z3	Z6
jaz	meni, mi	z menoj, z mano
ti	tebi, ti	s teboj, s tabo
on / ono	njemu, mu	z njim
ona	njej, ji	z njo
midva / medve	nama	z nama
vidva / vedve	vama	z vama
onidva / onidve	njima, jima	z njima
mi / me	nam	z nami
vi / ve	vam	z vami
oni / one / ona	njim, jim	z njimi

As you can see, personal pronouns in Third Sklon – Dative and Sixth Sklon – Instrumental have many in commons, but with a slight changes:

• z / s is a preposition in the Sixth Sklon (careful with “s teboj, s tabo“) and
• for the plural person in Z₃ and Z₆ are very similar, but in Z₆ you add an “i” at the end.

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Here’s a table with the personal pronouns in all skloni:

Z1	Z2	Z3	Z4	Z5	Z6
jaz	mene, me	meni, mi	mene, me	meni	z menoj, z mano
ti	tebe, te	tebi, ti	tebe, te	tebi	s teboj, s tabo
on / ono	njega, ga	njemu, mu	njega, ga	njem	z njim
ona	nje, je	njej, ji	njo, jo	njej	z njo
midva / medve	naju	nama	naju	naju	z nama
vidva / vedve	vaju	vama	vaju	vaju	z vama
onadva / onidve	njiju, ju	njima, jima	njiju, ju	njiju	z njima
mi / me	nas	nam	nas	nas	z nami
vi / ve	vas	vam	vas	vas	z vami
oni / one / ona	njih, jih	njim, jim	njih, jih	njih	z njimi

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I know it is a lot of material at once and I hope that I didn’t confuse you too much. But learning a new language, especially complex like Slovene, will take time and practice. Take one bite at the time 🙂

If you have any questions, comments or other tricks, please do share with me!

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Discover more Slovene “lessons” that might interest you: Slovene Numbers & Numerals, Slovene Nouns & Pronouns, Slovene Verbs, Slovene Adjectives, Slovene Syntax, Slovenian Idioms, Slovene Adverbs.

Let’s learn,
Anna.