How to use demonstrative pronouns in Shona

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Shona

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Shona? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Shona lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Shona demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Shona personal pronouns : I

A personal pronoun is what we call the English words 'I', 'you', 'he', 'she', 'we' and 'they'. Just like English, Shona has a set of personal pronouns. The English word 'I' is a pronoun in the first person singular. The Shona word for 'I' is 'ini'.

Examples

neiniwo
me too
ini
I
kwete ini
not me
uye ini ?
and me ?
ini kana
me neither
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Shona belongs to the Bantu language family. If you are planning on doing some travelling, learning Shona would be a great way to make the most of your trip.

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Basic words and phrases in Shona

Learn to get by in Shona with these useful words and phrases. These essential phrases cover everything from Shona greetings to business and workplace communications to love and dating.

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Good night
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Good morning
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Step 6 : Shona demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns bhuku, chigaro and gonhi (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Shona demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Shona demonstrative pronouns with the nouns bhuku, chigaro and gonhi and the plural nouns mabhuku, zvigaro and makonhi you can move on to Step 7 (Shona adjectives).

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