before a consonant or y- before a vowel. The independent pronouns are often used as subjects: "I live in Bluefields" (I town in stay), "Can you sew a dress?" (you dress sew-IRREALIS), "He/She is going". They may also be complements of postpositions: "My mother lives in this house with me" (my mother this house in stay I with), "from you", "The tiger came out at them" (tiger they at came-out). Note that -ut changes to -ul before a vowel, for example in "with us". The prefix forms of the pronouns are used as subject prefixes with verbs: "I gave it to Nelly" (Nelly OBJECT I-gave), "Tomorrow I will cook some meat" (tomorrow meat I-will-cook), "With whom did you go?" (who with you-went), "he/she went", "They came to the island" (island in they-came). In the second person plural, m- is prefixed and -lut suffixed to the verb. Subject prefixes are omitted when the subject is represented by an independent pronoun: "I am going" is either or , "He is going" is either or , etc. They are also commonly absent in the presence of a full subject noun phrase: "My father is going", but "repetition" of the subject is also possible: "The lizard (he) walks on the ground" (lizard ground on it-walks). A pronominal object is expressed by adding the postposition aa to the pronouns, which adopt the prefix form in the singular but the full form in the plural: but (for ) etc. But third person objects are commonly zero-marked, that is, the absence of an overt object of a transitive verb implies an understood "him", "her" or "it", e.g. Anangsku "They cleaned it" (lit. they-cleaned). The demonstrative pronouns are the same as the corresponding determiners: "this", "that", as in "This is my house". The interrogative pronouns are "what", "who", as in "What is your name?", "Who speaks Rama?" (who Rama language speaks), "With whom did you go?" (who with you-went). Postpositions Rama postpositions perform roughly the same functions as English prepositions, as in "on the ground", "in (the) town", "with me", "of the house", etc. Postpositional phrases may occur either before or after the verb. Some postpositions have a shorter and a longer form; following the verb the long forms are used, e.g. "I ran away from my father" (I-ran my father from) but before the verb the short forms are more usual: (my father from I-ran). Although or