Editing Tetum language (section)

==== Personal pronouns ====
{| class="wikitable" 
|-
! colspan="2" | 
! Singular
! Plural
|-
! rowspan="2" | 1st person
! exclusive
| rowspan="2" | {{Lang|tet|Ha'u(-nia)}}
| {{Lang|tet|Ami(-nia)}}
|-
! inclusive
| {{Lang|tet|Ita(-nia)}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | 2nd person
! familiar
| {{Lang|tet|O(-nia)}}
| {{Lang|tet|Imi(-nia)}}
|-
! polite
| {{Lang|tet|Ita(-nia)}}
| {{Lang|tet|Ita boot sira(-nia)}}
|-
! colspan="2" | 3rd person
| {{Lang|tet|Nia (ninia)}}
| {{Lang|tet|Sira(-nia)}}
|}

<ref name="Williams-van Klinken 2002">{{Cite book |url=http://sealang.net/archives/pl/pdf/PL-528.pdf |title=Tetun Dili: A grammar of an East Timorese language |last1=Williams-van Klinken |first1=Catharina |last2=Hajek |first2=John |last3=Nordlinger |first3=Rachel |date=2002 |publisher=Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University |isbn=0858835096 |location=Canberra |doi=10.15144/pl-528 |hdl=1885/146149 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>

{{interlinear|number=(1)
|Hau rona asu hatenu
|1S hear dog barking
|"I hear the dog barking"|lang=tet}}

{{interlinear|number=(2)
|Nia sosa sigaru
|3S buys cigarettes
|"He/She buys cigarettes"|lang=tet}}

{{interlinear|number=(3)
|Ita rona rádiu?
|1PL hearing radio
|"Are we hearing a radio?"|lang=tet}}

{{interlinear
| number = (4)|Sira moris hotu ka?|3PL alive all ?|"Are they all alive?"
| lang = tet
}}

A common occurrence is to use titles such as {{Lang|tet|Senhora}} for a woman or names rather than pronouns when addressing people.

{{interlinear|number=(1)
|Senhora mai hori bain-hira?
|Mrs come PAST when
|"When did you arrive?"<ref name="Williams-van Klinken 2002" />|lang=tet}}

The second person singular pronoun {{Lang|tet|Ó}} is used generally with children, friends or family, while with strangers or people of higher social status, {{Lang|tet|Ita}} or {{Lang|tet|Ita boot}} is used.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Williams-van Klinken |first1=Catharina |last2=Hajek |first2=John |date=2006 |title=Patterns of address in Dili Tetum, East Timor |url=https://benjamins.com/catalog/aral.29.2.06wil/fulltext |journal=Australian Review of Applied Linguistics |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=21.1–21.18 |doi=10.2104/aral0621|doi-access=free }}</ref>

{{interlinear|number=(1)
|Nina, Ó iha nebee?
|Nina 2S.FAM LOC where
|"Nina, where are you?"|lang=tet}}