This is a lexically determined feature, normally prescribing the syntactic use of the subcategory. The values (subcategories) are personal, reflexive, reciprocal, possessive, demonstrative, determinative, indefinite, relative and interrogative. (Most of the subcategories may function as both a kind of adjective and a kind of noun).
| Attribute | Value | Sw. example | Sw. tag |
| Type | personal | jag | pron-pers-sg1-nom |
| reflexive | mig | pron-refl-sg1 | |
| reciprocal | varandra | pron-rec | |
| possessive | min | pron-poss-sg1-com-sg | |
| demonstrative | denna | pron-dem-com-sg | |
| indefinite | någon | pron-indef | |
| relative | vilken | pron-rel | |
| interrogative | vem | pron-wh-sg-com | |