Yakan - -te

1

I (1st person singular).

Ergative/genitive set. If the actor is first person singular and the recipient is second person singular the -te has to be used rather than -ku.

I am asking you what that is.

I will take you shopping tomorrow.

ku

2

Let us (dual) (do s.t.).

If the actor is dual and the recipient is third person or plural, the -te also has to be used.

Sūng kite duk tilewte iye.

Let us go and let us ask her.

Sūngte, akahante siye

Let us go and let us tell them.

kite

3

One, one’s (impersonal pronoun).

Ergative/genitive set.

Bang ne kite niya' anak-andate, seddili ne kite duk kasubulten.

When one has a family (lit. one’s child-wife), one (behaves) differently from (the time of) one’s bachelorhood.