Faroese personal pronouns

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We use personal pronouns, instead of the names of those, we talk with or about. They are:

eg I
tú you
tygum you (formal)
hann he
hon she
tað it

They are divided into three persons:

1st person is the one, who is talking: eg
2nd person is the one, who is talked to: tú, tygum
3rd person is the one, who is talked about: hann, hon, tað

Eintal	1. persónur	2. persónur
Hvørfall	eg	tú
Hvønnfall	meg	teg
Hvørjumfall	mær	tær
Hvørsfall	mín	tín
Fleirtal
Hvørfall	vit	tit/tygum
Hvønnfall	okkum	tykkum/tygum
Hvørjumfall	okkum	tykkum/tygum
Hvørsfall	okkara	tykkara/tygara

Eintal	Kallkyn	Kvennkyn	Hvørkikyn
Hvørfall	hann	hon	tað
Hvønnfall	hann	hana	tað
Hvørjumfall	honum	henni	tí
Hvørsfall	hansara	hennara	tess
Fleirtal
Hvørfall	teir	tær	tey
Hvønnfall	teir	tær	tey
Hvørjumfall	teimum	teimum	teimum
Hvørsfall	teirra	teirra	teirra

The personal pronoun tygum is used, when talking to people, who are older than you, people, you don't know very well, or who you admire. It must be said, that this custom is almost gone but the oppinions are different about this.

We put the verb in plural, when we use the personal pronoun tygum.

Hvussu var, tá ið tygum fóru til skips? - What was it like, when you went to sea?
Vita tygum at siga mær, um hon kemur? - Can you tell me, if she'll come?
Eg visti, at tygum høvdu koyrt bilin. - I knew, that you had driven the car.

Older and shorter forms of the personal pronouns are often used in litterature:

tygar, hans, hansar, hennar, okkar, tykkar, teim

The forms vær and tær appear in old language, like the chants, instead of vit and tit:

"Vær tváum okkum hvítar" - We wash us white. "Viljið tær nú lýða á" - Will you listen

Jeg, okur and tykur is used in the dialect of Suðuroy, where else where in the Faroe Islands eg, vit (okkum) and tit (tykkum) is used.

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