Do you know what a pronoun is? And what about German?

We are not at all surprised that at birth, children do not know how to speak, and by the year they have been speaking their first words, to three - related sentences, to six - are learning to read and write.

We may well not have an idea about the grammar of our native language, but at the same time freely communicate with it. Perhaps, if you ask people on the street about what a pronoun is, the majority at best will say "I, you ...". And this does not in the least interfere with them in life.

However, the situation is different with studying a foreign language. For a logical understanding of the rules, it is simply necessary to know the answer to the question "what is a pronoun and other parts of speech?" And then we learn that, it turns out, a pronoun is a word that does not name an object or its attributes, but points to it. Without them, it is simply impossible to do without any conversation, much less in written speech, where the tautology is even more visible, because pronouns serve as a substitute for other nominal parts of speech - noun, adjective, numerals.

According to statistics, 30% of our oral and 20% of written speech consists only of pronouns, and in the most detailed grammatical reference books of the Russian language, the pronoun consists of 20 digits. However, in the table, for simplicity of understanding, only the main classes of pronouns of the Russian language are presented, as well as examples for each of them.

Pronouns in Russian and German almost completely coincide, most often confusion arises with their genus, because German and Russian nouns, denoting the same thing, sometimes have a completely different genus. Therefore, there is no need to explain once again what a pronoun is in German. It is better to pay attention to the declension of pronouns. In German, each class has its own characteristics, as, indeed, in Russian, we just do not think about it.

As can be seen from the table, endings in the case of personal pronouns in German and in Russian almost completely coincide. At the same time, their declension resembles a definite article, and as regards the genitive case, which is difficult to remember, it is practically not used. Proximate pronouns are derived from personal pronouns. In German, everything here is even more logical than in Russian: their endings are similar to the declension of a definite article, and in the plural - to an indefinite article.

Now that we have learned what a pronoun is and how they change by case and gender, and also learned this information, the topic of declination will definitely go much easier, and in time we will not have any problems with using endings in oral speech and writing.