EnglishGrammar: Pronouns
This article focuses on the urban Palestinian and Jordanian dialect.
For Lebanese, Syrian as well as rural dialects see Comparison of MSA and dialects.
Personal pronouns🠉
| 'ana | I | |
| 'iḥna | we | |
| 'inta | you | |
| 'inti | you | |
| 'intu | you (plural) | |
| huwwe | he | |
| hiyye | she | |
| humme | they | |
Urban Levantine Arabic don't use dual and feminine plural pronouns unlike MSA and rural dialects.
Suffix pronouns🠉
| Object | Possessive | ||
| -ni | me | - | |
| -i (-y) | - | my | |
| -na | us | our | |
| -ak (-k) | you | your | |
| -ek (-ki) | you | your | |
| -kom | you (plural) | your (plural) | |
| -o (-ʰ) | him | his | |
| -ha | her | her | |
| -hom | them | their | |
Suffix pronouns are objects after verbs and possessive after nouns.
Some suffixes change their pronunciation after vowels (in parantheses), the vowels become long.
The femine endings
If the suffix pronoun begins with a consonant, the last syllable before it becomes stressed.
Demonstrative pronouns🠉
هَادَا هادا | hād hāda | this |
هَادِي هادي | hāy hādi | this |
| hādōl | these | |
| hadāk | that | |
| hadīk | that | |
| hadōlāk | those | |
| hōn | here | |
| hunāk | there | |
Comparison of MSA and dialects🠉
Personal pronouns
| MSA | Palestine, Jordan | Syria (Damasc.) | Lebanon (Beirut) | ||||
| Urban | Rural | Galilee | |||||
| أنا | 'anā | 'ana | I | ||||
| نحن | naḥnu | 'iḥna | niḥna | we | |||
| أنت | 'anta | 'inta / 'inte | 'inte | 'inta | you (masc.) | ||
| أنت | anti | 'inti | 'inte | you (fem.) | |||
| أنتما | 'antumā | you (dual) | |||||
| أنتم | 'antum | 'intu | 'intu | 'intu | you (plural) | ||
| أنتن | 'antunna | 'inten | you (plural, fem.) | ||||
| هو | huwa | huwwe | he | ||||
| هي | hiya | hiyye | she | ||||
| هما | humā | they (dual) | |||||
| هم | hum | humme | humme | hinne | they | ||
| هن | hunna | hinne | they (fem.) | ||||
Suffix pronouns
| MSA | Palestine, Jordan | Syria (Damasc.) | Lebanon (Beirut) | ||||
| Urban | Rural | Galilee | |||||
| ـني | -nī | -ni | -ne | me | |||
| ـي | -ī (-ya) | -i (-y) | -e (-y) | my | |||
| ـنا | -nā | -na | us, our | ||||
| ـك | -ka | -ak (-k) | you, your (masc.) | ||||
| ـك | -ki | -ek (-ki) | you, your (fem.) | ||||
| ـكما | -kumā | you, your (dual) | |||||
| ـكم | -kum | -kom | -ku | -ku | -kon | you, your (plural) | |
| ـكن | -kunna | -ken | you, your (plural, fem.) | ||||
| ـه | -hu/-hi | -o (-ʰ) | him, his | ||||
| ـها | -hā | -ha | -a (-ha) | her | |||
| ـهما | -humā/-himā | they, them (dual) | |||||
| ـهم | -hum/-him | -hom | -hom | -hen | -on (-hon) | they, them | |
| ـهن | -hunna/-hinna | -hen | they, them (fem.) | ||||
Demonstrative pronouns
| MSA | Palestine, Jordan | Syria (Damasc.) | Lebanon (Beirut) | ||
| هذا | hāḏā | hāda | hayda | this (masc.) | |
| هذه | hāḏihī | hāy / hādi | hayy | hayde | this (fem.) |
| هذين | hāḏayn | these (dual) | |||
| هتين | hātayn | these (dual, fem.) | |||
| هؤلاء | hā'ūlā'i | hadāk | haydāk | these (plural) | |
| ذلك | ḏālika | hadāk | haydāk | that (masc.) | |
| تلك | tilka | hadīk | haydāke | that (fem.) | |
| ذينك | ḏaynika | those (dual) | |||
| تينك | ḏaynika | those (dual, fem.) | |||
| أولئك | ulā'ika | hadōlāk | hadōlīk | haydōlīk | those (plural) |
| هنا | hunā | hōn | hūn | here | |
| هناك | hunāka | hunāk | hunīk | there | |