waan / waad / wuu / way

Short Subject Pronouns with Waa

Level 1

ComponentsContractionSubject
waa + aanwaanI/we
waa + aadwaadyou singular/plural
waa + uuwuuhe/masculine it
waa + aywayshe/feminine it/they

How It Works

These optional contractions are especially common in speech and casual writing. Separated forms remain available. An ordinary affirmative verbal statement normally retains its short subject even with a full subject phrase.

Number may remain ambiguous in the contraction. Waan can accompany singular or first-person plural agreement; waad can address one or several listeners. Explicit aannu, aynu and aydin can clarify plural reference. Way sawirtaa and way sawiraan share the contraction, but their verbs distinguish feminine singular from plural.

Simple noun predicates and affirmative subject-focus clauses omit ordinary short subjects. Adjective-plus-copula predicates often omit third-person short subjects. Questions and negatives use other particle frames. Learn these contractions within their statement constructions rather than inserting them before every predicate.

Examples (5)

  1. Waan sawiraa.

    I draw.

    Singular aan agreement.

  2. Waad sawirtaan.

    You all draw.

    Plural aad agreement.

  3. Wuu sawiraa.

    He draws.

    Masculine singular uu.

  4. Way sawirtaa.

    She draws.

    Feminine singular agreement.

  5. Way sawiraan.

    They draw.

    Plural agreement.

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waan / waad / wuu / wayLevel 1Short Subject Pronouns with Waa

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Identify the person referred to before reading the contracted declarative particle and subject pronoun.

Words in This Pattern

aan