Personal Pronouns — Lithuanian Grammar

Personal pronouns stand in for people: I, you, he, she, we, they. Like nouns, they change form for each of the seven cases. Because the verb ending already shows the subject, the nominative pronoun is often dropped - but the other case forms are used all the time.

The Basic Set (Nominative)

(I), (you, one person), (he), (she)
(we), (you, plural/polite), (they, masc), (they, fem)

Note that "they" is for a group that is all-male or mixed, and for an all-female group - the same masculine/feminine split that runs through the whole language.

"tu" or "jūs"?

This is an important social choice. Use with family, friends and children; use as the polite form for one stranger, an older person, or anyone you wish to show respect (and always for more than one person). The wrong choice is noticed, so when in doubt use .

Kaip tu jautiesi?
How do you feel? (familiar)
Kaip jūs jaučiatės?
How do you feel? (polite)

They Decline

The pronoun changes shape according to its role, just as nouns do. runs through the cases:

(NOM, GEN, DAT, ACC, INSTR, LOC)

Jis mane mato.
He sees me. (accusative)
Duok man.
Give (it) to me. (dative)
Be manęs.
Without me. (genitive)

And runs :

Aš jį pažįstu.
I know him. (accusative)
Pasakyk jam.
Tell him. (dative)

"she" and Plural "they"

(she) runs , and the plurals are (us: ) and (you: ):

Aš ją matau.
I see her.
Jis mums padeda.
He helps us.

More of the Forms

For reference, (you, singular) runs through the cases as :

Aš tave matau.
I see you.
Be tavęs nuobodu.
It is boring without you.

After Prepositions

Prepositions take their usual case, and the pronoun simply supplies that case form:

su tavimi
with you. (instrumental, after su)
be jūsų
without you. (genitive, after be)
pas mane
at my place. (accusative, after pas)

Emphasis

Add the nominative pronoun back in only when you want to stress who is meant, or set up a contrast:

Aš dirbu, o tu ilsiesi.
I am working, while you are resting.
Ne aš, o jis.
Not me, but him.

In the course

Sentences from Lingora’s Lithuanian course

252 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 1. A few of them, with the words “Personal Pronouns” is about in bold:

Tai mano draugė Ana. Ji yra studentė.
This is my friend, Anna. She is a student.
Lesson 2
Jis taip pat miega. Ji nemiega.
He is also sleeping. She isn't.
Lesson 16
Aš myliu juos, o jie myli mane.
I love them and they love me.
Lesson 32

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