Nepali Pronouns

There are a couple of pronouns I've left out of this list, but only because they are either not commonly used or are too rude/low respect.

These are pronouns in their normal form. For certain purposes these may have to be modified slightly, which we will get into later.

First Person singular

(I, me) - म ma

First Person plural 

(we, us) - हामी haami

Second Person singular Medium Respect 

(you) - तिमी timi

Second Person singular High Respect 

(you) - तपाईं tapai~

Third Person singular Low Respect 

(he/she/it) - ऊ u

(this) - यो yo  

(that) - त्यो tyo

Third Person plural Low Respect

(these) - यी yi 

(those) - ती ti
*usually these are used in front of another noun (such as "ti manisharu" = "those people") rather than on their own.

Third Person Medium Respect 

(he/she) - उनी uni 

(this person) - यिनी yini 

(that person) - तिनी tini

Third Person High Respect 

(he/she) उहाँ uhaa~ "wa-ha~"

Plural Forms

Except for the plural forms already listed above, you can add the suffix -haru to make the pronouns plural.

e.g.

तिमीहरु Timiharu = you all (medium respect)

तपाईंहरु Tapai~haru = you all (high respect)

उहाँहरु uhaa~haru = they/them (high respect)

I'm not an expert in graph-making, but here's a little graphic I made with a list of the common pronouns and their plural forms:

In a future article I'll go over how these pronouns are changed slightly depending on whether they are the subject/object of a sentence, etc. For now, learning these extremely common pronouns in their normal state is still really useful in speaking Nepali!