Pronouns
Personal pronouns
Ah is used for 1st person sing.; ye for 2nd person in unstressed positions; you for emphasis; youse plural.
| sing. | pl. | |
| 1 | Ah or I | we |
| 2 | ye, you | ye, you, youse |
| 3 | he, she, it | they |
In the oblique case we have:
| sing. | pl. | |
| 1 | me | us |
| 2 | ye, you | ye, you, youse |
| 3 | him, her, it | them |
Sometimes us is used as a singular as in Gie’s a piece! (Give me a sandwich!)
In Shetland, du (subject) and dee (object) are used familiarly; in Orkney, thoo (subject) and thee (object) are used familiarly
Possessives
| sing. | pl. | |
| 1 | ma | oor or wir |
| 2 | yer, your | yer, your |
| 3 | his, her, its | thir, their |
Possessives are used in Scots where they would not be used in English: Whit're ye gettin for yer Christmas? (in English, 'What are you getting for Christmas?'); Ah'm awa tae ma bed; Ah'm gaun ma holidays the morn.
Where not used as a determiner, the possessive pronouns are more regular than in English: That buik is mines; yours, his hers, its, oors or wirs, yers or yours, thirs or theirs.
Relative pronouns
That (or North at) is used as a relative pronoun for both people and things, eg the lassie that dis the weather; the fowk that steyed here afore; the hoose that we steyed in afore.
Wha and wham are also used as a relative pronouns (as in Scots wha hae...) with a human antecedent. In Older Scots quhilk could be used with either a human or nonhuman antecedent and agreed with the antecedent in number: Of Þe sall cum mony kingis, quhilkis with lang and anciant lynage sall reioise Þe crovun of Scotland.
Reflexive pronouns
-sel (plural -sels) is added to the possessive adjectives (see above) to form the reflexives, eg masel, yersel, hissel, hersel, itsel, oorsels or wirsels, yersels, thirsels.
