People and being

Use Eastern Armenian pronouns and all six present forms of to be.

Six people

ես I; դու you (one familiar person); նա he/she; մենք we; դուք you (plural or polite singular); նրանք they. There is no grammatical gender. This course uses standard Eastern Armenian and reformed spelling.

Be: explicit forms

ես եմ; դու ես; նա է; մենք ենք; դուք եք; նրանք են. Notice that ես is I as a pronoun but are (you) as a verb. The letters ե and է are not interchangeable.

First sentences

ուսանող = student; այստեղ = here. A profession or status predicate can be bare: Ես ուսանող եմ։ The Armenian full stop is ։. Order drills omit final punctuation.

Ես այստեղ եմ։

I am here.