Grammar:Tutorial/Pronoun suffixes

Nouns with pronoun suffixes

To a noun can be added a suffix meaning “whose” this noun is (as in the English phrase “my horse”). The suffixes are below:

person	gender	singular	plural
1st	masculine	י (my ~)	נו (our ~)
	feminine
2nd	masculine	ך (your ~)	כם (your ~)
	feminine		כן (your ~)
3rd	masculine	ו/הו (his ~)	ם (their ~)
	feminine	ה (her ~)	ן (their ~)

Note: הו is used in Gen. 11:3 for a masculine noun.

Note: הן suffix in Gen. 4:4. So the suffix may be preceded by ה.

In feminine nouns ending with ה that ה is replaced with ת before pronoun suffixes.

Now read about pronoun suffixes with plural nouns:

For the plural nouns ending with ים that ים is replaced with the following suffixes:

person	gender	singular	plural
1st	masculine	י (my ~)	ינו (our ~)
	feminine
2nd	masculine	יך (your ~)	יכם (your ~)
	feminine		יכן (your ~)
3rd	masculine	יו (his ~)	יהם (their ~)
	feminine	יה (her ~)	יהן (their ~)

For the plural nouns ending with ות, after that ות are added the following suffixes (the same suffixes as in the previous table):

person	gender	singular	plural
1st	masculine	י (my ~)	ינו (our ~)
	feminine
2nd	masculine	יך (your ~)	יכם (your ~)
	feminine		יכן (your ~)
3rd	masculine	יו (his ~)	יהם (their ~)
	feminine	יה (her ~)	יהן (their ~)

A noun with a pronoun suffix is considered definite (but an article should be not put before it).

Verbs with object pronoun suffixes

These suffixes denote an object of an action:

person	gender	singular	plural
1st	masculine	ני	נו
	feminine
2nd	masculine	ך	כם
	feminine		כן
3rd	masculine	הו	ם
	feminine	ה	ן

In 3rd person, singular, feminine of perfect the suffix ה is replaced with ת before pronoun suffixes.

In 2nd person, plural, masculine of perfect the suffix תם is replaced with תו before pronoun suffixes.

In 3-weak verbs the last ה of the root is omitted before pronoun suffixes.

Infinitive can have both object pronoun suffixes and subject pronoun suffixes.

Note the suffix הו appearing after a noun (not verb) in Gen. 1:12.