Ciarán12 wrote:Car wrote:
elle she
ele - he
Even worse (due to the pronunciation) is:
él - he, him
elle - she
I may have posted this before, but along the same lines (if I can even manage to write it out correctly, because when I try to put them side by side my brain just sort of freezes)....
The French/Estonian ones especially threw me for a loop because I started studying French shortly after I started studying Estonian, and as a result I mixed up the French pronouns embarrassingly often for quite a while, particularly the first two sets below.
sa you (2nd person singular subject pronoun)
sa his, hers, its (3rd person singular possessive pronoun)
ta he, she (3rd person singular subject pronoun)
ta your (2nd person singular possessive pronoun)
ma I (1st person singular subject pronoun)
ma my (1st person singular possessive pronoun)
me we (1st person plural subject pronoun)
me me (1st person singular object pronoun)
me me (1st person singular object pronoun)
me me (1st person singular object pronoun)
te you (2nd person plural subject pronoun)
te you (2nd person singular object pronoun)
te you (2nd person singular object pronoun)
su your (2nd person singular/informal possessive pronoun)
su his, her, their (3rd person singular/plural possessive pronoun); your (2nd person plural/formal possessive pronoun)
All of the Estonian ones are actually the short forms of longer pronouns (sina, tema, mina, meie, teie, sinu), but these short forms are very commonly used.