dis / yun / dat

In Shaetlan the demonstrative pronouns remain invariant, unlike in Standard English, where they inflect for plural. So that:

▪︎dis rams / dis eens ir moorit ('these rams / these ones are brown')

▪︎yun rams / yun eens ir catmoget ('those rams / those ones are black bellied')

▪︎but in dat days dey haed gulmoget rams ('but in those days they had light bellied rams')

...are all examples of correct Shaetlan grammar. Any attempt to alter that to the StE system — such as to "dese"/"dhese"/"these" or "dose"/"dhose"/"those" — would be misguided: it is two different grammatical systems.

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