Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third...
26 KB (3,394 words) - 09:49, 4 October 2024
The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English...
27 KB (2,746 words) - 13:59, 21 October 2024
The Portuguese personal pronouns and possessives display a higher degree of inflection than other parts of speech. Personal pronouns have distinct forms...
41 KB (4,476 words) - 20:24, 13 June 2024
a pronoun is "you", which can be either singular or plural. Sub-types include personal and possessive pronouns, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative...
31 KB (3,454 words) - 01:31, 30 September 2024
Spanish personal pronouns have distinct forms according to whether they stand for the subject (nominative) or object, and third-person pronouns make an...
29 KB (3,506 words) - 17:04, 25 October 2024
Preferred gender pronouns (also called personal gender pronouns, often abbreviated as PGP) are the set of pronouns (in English, third-person pronouns) that an...
61 KB (5,444 words) - 18:03, 30 October 2024
Japanese personal pronouns do. Consider for example two words corresponding to the English pronoun "I": 私 (watashi) also means "private" or "personal". 僕 (boku)...
61 KB (4,883 words) - 14:21, 4 October 2024
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...
28 KB (2,690 words) - 06:45, 28 October 2024
discusses the forms and functions of the personal pronouns in Catalan and Valencian. The "strong" pronouns (Catalan: pronoms forts) in Catalan have the...
23 KB (2,001 words) - 07:04, 23 August 2024
A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence. In the English language specifically...
47 KB (4,896 words) - 15:36, 29 October 2024
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...
15 KB (1,280 words) - 18:33, 22 September 2024
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...
2 KB (274 words) - 22:39, 6 May 2024
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...
111 KB (11,089 words) - 17:25, 2 November 2024
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...
5 KB (476 words) - 23:46, 17 July 2024
A disjunctive pronoun is a stressed form of a personal pronoun reserved for use in isolation or in certain syntactic contexts. Disjunctive pronominal forms...
4 KB (464 words) - 00:15, 7 May 2024
Old English grammar (redirect from Old english personal pronouns)
genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter). First and second-person personal pronouns also had dual forms for referring to groups of two people, in addition...
84 KB (8,365 words) - 17:42, 25 October 2024
gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun that means, roughly, "a person". For purposes of verb agreement it is a third-person singular pronoun, though it sometimes...
15 KB (1,659 words) - 20:25, 25 October 2024
Germanic pronouns are divided into several groups; Personal pronouns, which apply to an entity, such as the speaker or third parties; Possessive pronouns, which...
15 KB (1,499 words) - 15:39, 25 June 2024
Singular they (redirect from Gender-neutral third person singular pronoun in English)
themselves (also themself and theirself), is a gender-neutral third-person pronoun. It typically occurs with an indeterminate antecedent, to refer to an unknown...
114 KB (11,524 words) - 07:44, 28 October 2024
describes the personal pronoun systems of various Austronesian languages. The Proto-Austronesian and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian personal pronouns below were...
34 KB (1,603 words) - 12:59, 31 December 2023
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...
14 KB (1,137 words) - 02:05, 17 October 2024
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...
19 KB (2,075 words) - 05:27, 6 September 2024
types that are indisputably pronouns are the personal pronouns, relative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, and reciprocal pronouns. The full set is presented...
33 KB (3,179 words) - 20:19, 22 October 2024
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...
4 KB (640 words) - 19:05, 4 August 2024
Grammatical gender (redirect from Neuter Pronouns)
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...
99 KB (12,112 words) - 15:36, 21 October 2024
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...
17 KB (1,480 words) - 09:26, 18 September 2024
With clitics, object pronouns are generally proclitic, but enclitic forms are mandatory in certain environments. The personal pronoun "vos" is used in some...
18 KB (2,520 words) - 15:27, 7 August 2024
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...
12 KB (1,244 words) - 16:28, 31 July 2024
Slovene grammar (section Personal pronouns)
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...
37 KB (4,712 words) - 04:35, 5 February 2024
Bible. English personal pronouns Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns Generic antecedent Third-person pronoun See reverential...
8 KB (771 words) - 00:24, 2 September 2024