ABSTRACT

Pronouns or pronominals are words that replace nouns when learners don't want to repeat them. Learners have the three persons, singular and plural, which makes it a set of six pronouns. This set of six pronouns is seen first of all in the form of six independent pronouns, which can be used without any change as subjects, as objects, or as possessive pronouns. Then there are two more sets of enclitic / suffixed personal pronouns, one used for possessive or objective, the other the verbal / conjugational personal enclitics added to the verbs. The 2Sg pronoun is quite common in Iran; it is not considered obsolete or poetical as thou is in English, and it is not considered rude if used in the right sort of relations, among friends and close family members. Demonstrative pronouns in Persian are in, this and ān, that for singular.