Chinese pronouns are pronouns in the Chinese languages. This article highlights Mandarin Chinese pronouns. There are also Cantonese pronouns and Hokkien...
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a pronoun is "you", which can be either singular or plural. Sub-types include personal and possessive pronouns, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative...
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third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. Some languages, such as Slavic, with gender-specific pronouns have...
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words relating to Cantonese pronouns, see the Cantonese pronouns category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pronouns in Cantonese are less numerous...
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Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third...
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themselves, etc.). English intensive pronouns, used for emphasis, take the same form. In generative grammar, a reflexive pronoun is an anaphor that must be bound...
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and chúng ta mean "inclusive we"). The other class of pronouns are known as "absolute" pronouns. These cannot be modified with the pluralizer chúng. Many...
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addressing a great master. China portal Chinese honorifics Chinese pronouns Japanese honorifics Surnames by country § East Asia Chinese name Kung Fu (Ranking)...
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concepts. China portal Language portal Chinese titles Chinese pronouns Chinese kinship Chinese idioms ""尊稱"的解釋 | 漢典". www.zdic.net (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved...
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(Three gendered pronouns; no grammatical gender) Malayalam (Three gendered pronouns; no grammatical gender) Tamil (Three gendered pronouns; no grammatical...
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languages such as Hindi, the relative pronouns are distinct from the interrogative pronouns. In English, different pronouns are sometimes used if the antecedent...
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Inflection (section Chinese)
Classical Chinese, pronouns were overtly inflected to mark case. However, these overt case forms are no longer used; most of the alternative pronouns are considered...
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Dummy pronouns are used in many Germanic languages, including German and English. Pronoun-dropping languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and...
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German pronouns are German words that function as pronouns. As with pronouns in other languages, they are frequently employed as the subject or object...
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18.6) Chinese adjectives Chinese grammar Chinese honorifics Chinese particles Chinese pronouns Chinese verbs Classical Chinese Classical Chinese lexicon...
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one". Chinese pronouns Chinese verbs Chinese particles Chinese grammar Zhu, Yongping; Huang, Chu-Ren (2023-05-11). A Student Grammar of Chinese. Cambridge...
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Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. The...
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Possessive (redirect from Possessive pronouns)
possessive). The personal pronouns of many languages correspond to both a set of possessive determiners and a set of possessive pronouns. For example, the English...
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Demonstrative (redirect from Demonstrative pronouns)
demonstrative pronouns) and demonstrative pronouns (sometimes called independent demonstratives, substantival demonstratives, independent demonstrative pronouns or...
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demonstrative and interrogative pronouns, and many of them are only with slightly different meanings. The plural personal pronouns tend to be nasalized forms...
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by a Chinese substratum. From the 17th to the 19th centuries, there was also Chinese Pidgin English spoken in Cantonese-speaking portions of China. Chinese...
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Pro-drop language (redirect from Pronoun dropping language)
A pro-drop language (from "pronoun-dropping") is a language in which certain classes of pronouns may be omitted when they can be pragmatically or grammatically...
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Possessive determiner (redirect from Determinative possessive pronouns)
possessive pronouns but not as determiners. Possessive determiners may also be taken to include possessive forms made from nouns, from other pronouns and from...
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Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages...
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is also considered informal. Chinese pronouns Chinese grammar Chinese language Japanese sound symbolism Radicals of Chinese Characters "The 214 Radicals...
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Standard Chinese is similar to that illustrated here. Chinese exclamative particles Chinese pronouns Chinese adjectives Chinese verbs Chinese grammar Classical...
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consistently on these pronouns. While the first and second person singular pronouns are cognate with forms in other varieties of Chinese, the rest of the pronominal...
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touch", "You should not touch"). English personal pronouns Gender-neutral pronoun Gender-specific pronoun Generic antecedents Generic you Grammatical conjugation...
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Contraction (grammar) (section Chinese)
with the pronouns ele and ela (he, she), producing dele, dela (his, her). In addition, some verb forms contract with enclitic object pronouns: e.g., the...
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Interrogative word (redirect from Interrogative pronouns)
(who(m)ever, whatever, whichever) can be regarded as indefinite pronouns or as relative pronouns. To form adverbial clauses with the meaning "no matter where/who/etc...
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