# Lesson 2: Personal Pronouns

#### Personal Pronouns

Pronouns take the place of a noun. We briefly introduced pronouns with the Demonstrative Pronouns in a previous lesson. In this lesson, we will examine the Personal Pronouns (i.e. pronouns that describe or take the place of a person).

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##### Examples

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#### Application

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##### Biblical Examples

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#### Exercises

##### Exercise 1: Translate to Coptic

Translate the following into Coptic:

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##### Exercise 2: Translate to English

Translate the following phrases into English:

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Resources  


- "A Study in Bohairic Coptic" by Nabil Matar; p162
- See Moawad Daoud Lesson 2
- See Sameh Younan page 59 in the PDF
- ACTS 2990 Introduction to the Coptic Language (Bohairic) with Hany Takla Lesson 3A