te

you (singular familiar, accusative or dative or reflexive or prepositional)


i

I: the first-person singular nominative personal pronoun.


me

me (accusative or dative or reflexive or prepositional)


ca

that (as in 'the boy that I saw' ("O guaglio' ca vist'"))


se

reflexive third person pronoun: oneself, himself, itself, herself, themselves etc.


tu

you (second-person singular nominative pronoun)


io

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

I (the first-person singular nominative pronoun)


'o

From Old Neapolitan lo, from Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum < ille. Compare Italian lo.


mio

head

mìo (first-person singular possessive of masculine singular, of feminine singular mìa, of masculine plural mìeje, of feminine plural mèje or mèe)

mìo (canonical)
mìa (feminine nominative singular)
mìeje (masculine nominative plural)
mèje (feminine nominative plural)
mèe (feminine nominative plural)


ve

you (formal or plural, reflexive or dative or accusative)


essa

Inherited from Latin ipsa (“she herself, that very one”). Compare Italian essa.


lloro

Ultimately from Latin illōrum. The stressed vowel outcome appears to rule out a native inheritance.


isso

Inherited from Latin ipsum (“himself, that very one”). Compare Italian esso.


sujo

third-person singular possessive pronoun: hers, his, its


meve

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mibi, modification of Classical Latin mihi.
In modern times, used in Ripacandida, Spinazzola, and parts of Lecce. Enjoyed a wider distribution in the past (cf. the Ritmo cassinese).


tene

you (singular, formal, after preposition)


nuje

Inherited from Latin nōs. Compare Italian noi. The final schwa in Neapolitan is epenthetic.


vuje

Inherited from Latin vōs. Compare Italian voi. The final schwa in Neapolitan is epenthetic.


nce

Uncertain. Perhaps from Latin hince or hīce, variants of hinc (“from here”) and hīc (“here”). See the entry for Italian ci for more.

Si nce lassano parlà

Nce vulimmo bene

(reflexive pronoun) ourselves; each other


nce

L'ùrdemo ca nce trasette

Nce truvaje a pàteto


nisciuno

From Latin nē ipse ūnus (literally “not one himself, not even one”). Compare Italian nessuno, Friulian nissun, Ligurian nisciǜn, Old French neisun; cf. also Romanian niciun, Spanish ninguno.

inh

(singular only, in negative sentences) no, any


nisciuno

(masculine singular only) no one, nobody