Pronouns are a very heterogeneous group of phrases which refer to entities rather than naming them.
In the Indo-European languages, pronouns are normally nominal or determinative phrases. Many of them can act both nominally and determinatively.
Persian pronouns can be classified as follows:
- ۷•۱. Personal Pronouns
- ۷•۲. Possessive Pronouns
- ۷•۳. Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns
- ۷•۴. Differential Pronouns
- ۷•۵. Reciprocal Pronouns
- ۷•۶. Demonstrative Pronouns
- ۷•۷. Interrogative Pronouns
- ۷•۸. Distributive Pronouns
- ۷•۹. Associative Pronouns
- ۷•۱۰. Inexistential Pronouns
- ۷•۱۱. Selective Pronouns
- ۷•۱۲. Partitive Pronouns
- ۷•۱۳. Qualificative Pronouns
- ۷•۱۴. Quantificative Pronouns
- ۷•۱۵. Exclamative Pronouns
- ۷•۱۶. Elative Pronouns
- ۷•۱۷. Multiplicative Pronouns
- ۷•۱۸. Numeral Pronouns
Nominal pronouns are normally in the same grammatical category as the noun phrases which the are substituting. This occurence is called pronominal concord (see 3•c. Grammatical Categories of Noun Phrases).
Nevertheless, in some cases in Persian one can note the so-called pronominal discord in the number (see 3•۱•b.) and the person (see 3•۳•b.).