Pronoun
dü (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring, Sylt)
- you, thou (first-person singular personal pronoun)
Usage notes
- The reduced form of dü is zero. The conjugation of the verb expresses the person.
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- The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
- At is not enclitic; it can stand in any unstressed position and refers mostly to things. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
- Dual forms wat / onk and jat / jonk are obsolete, as is feminine jü / hör.
- Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.
- The forms üsens, jamens, hörens are used optionally (and decreasingly) when the possessor is a larger community, such as a village, city or nation.
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The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
Dual forms wat / unk and jat / junk are obsolete. Attributive and independent possessives are not distinguished in Mooring.
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- The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
- Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
- The dual forms are dated, but not obsolete as in other dialects.
- Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.