Personal Pronouns in Mongolian Language
| English | Mongolian | Pronunciation |
| I | Би | Bee |
| You | Чи / Та* | Chi/ Ta |
| He/She/That | Тэр | Ter |
| It/This | Энэ | Ene |
| You (plural) | Та нар | Ta nar |
| We | Бид нар | Bid nar |
| They | Тэд нар | Ted nar |
*IMPORTANT: Use Чи for the someone the same age or younger. Ta is used for those older and/or people that you respect or have a higher ranking. If you are unsure whether someone is older or younger than you, use Ta.
**Тэр is generally used with another noun when referring to a person. ‘Тэр хүн‘ is the closest translation to ‘he/she’. Generally, Mongolians just use names. Mongolians do not use Тэр on its own to express ‘he/she’. Тэр on its own only refers to objects.
The Pronouns Conjugated with all 8 cases:
As mentioned in previous lessons, Mongolian is an agglutanive language, meaning you add/change suffixes to change the meaning and function of words and phrases. In English ‘I’ is a subject pronoun and ‘Me’ is an object pronoun, just as ‘We’ is a subject pronoun and ‘Us’ is an object pronoun. The same concept exists in Mongolian but in a different form. More on that in another lesson. For now, here is a very useful chart of all the main pronouns conjugated with the 8 Mongolian Language cases:
Let’s make a few sentences using Personal Pronouns:
| Би | Би Энхээ/ Bee Enkhee/ I am Enkhee. |
| Чи | Чи Жон/ Chi John/ You are john. |
| Тэр | Тэр Ким/Ter Kim/He is Kim |
| Тэр | Тэр Лүси/Ter Lucy/She is Lucy. |
| Энэ | Энэ сандал/ Ene sandal/ This is a chair. |
| Та нар | Та нар cурагч/ Ta nar suragch/ You are students. |
| Бид нар | Бид нар багш/ Bid nar bagsh/We are teachers. |
| Тэд нар | Тэд нар Дорж, Жош/ Ted nar Dorj, Josh/ They are Dorj and Josh. |
