• 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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    The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English...
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  • The Portuguese personal pronouns and possessives display a higher degree of inflection than other parts of speech. Personal pronouns have distinct forms...
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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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    Spanish personal pronouns have distinct forms according to whether they stand for the subject (nominative) or object, and third-person pronouns make an...
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    Preferred gender pronouns (also called personal gender pronouns, often abbreviated as PGP) are the set of pronouns (in English, third-person pronouns) that an...
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  • Japanese personal pronouns do. Consider for example two words corresponding to the English pronoun "I": 私 (watashi) also means "private" or "personal". 僕 (boku)...
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  • French personal pronouns (analogous to English I, you, he/she, we, and they) reflect the person and number of their referent, and in the case of the third...
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  • discusses the forms and functions of the personal pronouns in Catalan and Valencian. The "strong" pronouns (Catalan: pronoms forts) in Catalan have the...
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  • A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence. In the English language specifically...
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  • Neopronoun (redirect from Ve (pronoun))
    neologistic third-person personal pronouns beyond those that already exist in a language. In English, neopronouns replace the existing pronouns "he", "she", and...
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  • In linguistics, a subject pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a verb. Subject pronouns are usually in the nominative case for...
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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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  • In linguistics, an object pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the...
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  • A disjunctive pronoun is a stressed form of a personal pronoun reserved for use in isolation or in certain syntactic contexts. Disjunctive pronominal forms...
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  • genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter). First and second-person personal pronouns also had dual forms for referring to groups of two people, in addition...
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  • gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun that means, roughly, "a person". For purposes of verb agreement it is a third-person singular pronoun, though it sometimes...
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  • Germanic pronouns are divided into several groups; Personal pronouns, which apply to an entity, such as the speaker or third parties; Possessive pronouns, which...
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    themselves (also themself and theirself), is a gender-neutral third-person pronoun. It typically occurs with an indeterminate antecedent, to refer to an unknown...
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  • describes the personal pronoun systems of various Austronesian languages. The Proto-Austronesian and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian personal pronouns below were...
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  • first-person pronoun. In Standard Modern English, I has five distinct word forms: I: the nominative (subjective) form I is the only pronoun form that is...
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  • In Modern English, it is a singular, neuter, third-person pronoun. In Modern English, it has only three shapes representing five word forms: it: the nominative...
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    types that are indisputably pronouns are the personal pronouns, relative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, and reciprocal pronouns. The full set is presented...
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    Ye /jiː/ is a second-person, plural, personal pronoun (nominative), spelled in Old English as "ge". In Middle English and Early Modern English, it was...
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  • the pronoun is deduced indirectly from the context: this is found with personal pronouns, as well as with indefinite and dummy pronouns. With personal pronouns...
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  • You (redirect from You (pronoun))
    free dictionary. In Modern English, the word "you" is the second-person pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative...
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    With clitics, object pronouns are generally proclitic, but enclitic forms are mandatory in certain environments. The personal pronoun "vos" is used in some...
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  • We (redirect from We (pronoun))
    disappeared, leaving only pronoun marking. At the same time, a new relative pronoun system was developing that eventually split between personal relative who and...
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  • carefully still.) Pronouns can replace a noun in a sentence; this is, as opposed to, say, an adjective or an adverb. A personal pronoun denotes the speaker...
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  • Bible. English personal pronouns Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns Generic antecedent Third-person pronoun See reverential...
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