• of French personal pronouns include: a T-V distinction in the second person singular (familiar tu vs. polite vous) the placement of object pronouns before...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. Some languages with gender-specific pronouns have them as...
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  • context. In English, pronouns mostly function as pro-forms, but there are pronouns that are not pro-forms and pro-forms that are not pronouns.: 239  Examples...
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  • The Spivak pronouns are a set of gender-neutral pronouns in English promulgated on the virtual community LambdaMOO based on pronouns used in a book by...
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    use continues in Icelandic.) In Old English, the use of second-person pronouns was governed by a simple rule: þū addressed one person, ġit addressed two...
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  • pronouns are not a distinct part of speech, but a subclass of nouns, and they behave grammatically just like nouns. Certain faux-archaic pronouns may...
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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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  • and gender (masculine or feminine) of their nouns; personal pronouns and a few other pronouns, for person, number, gender, and case; and verbs, for tense...
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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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  • 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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  • Chinese pronouns (Chinese: 代词/代詞; pinyin: dàicí or Chinese: 代名詞; pinyin: dàimíngcí) differ somewhat from pronouns in English and other Indo-European languages...
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    Spanish pronouns in some ways work quite differently from their English counterparts. Subject pronouns are often omitted, and object pronouns come in...
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  • The reciprocal pronouns of English are one another and each other, and they form the category of anaphors along with reflexive pronouns (myself, yourselves...
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  • of different pronouns that exists in some languages and serves to convey formality or familiarity. Its name comes from the Latin pronouns tu and vos. The...
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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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  • 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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  • Korean has personal pronouns for the 1st and 2nd person, with distinctions for honorifics, and it prefers demonstrative pronouns in the 3rd person, which...
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  • 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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  • Iel is a neo-pronoun in the French language intended as an alternative to the gender-specific pronouns elle ("she") and il ("he"). It has been adopted...
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  • subject. English personal pronouns French personal pronouns Intensive pronoun Irish morphology Subjective pronoun Weak pronoun Copula John Collinson Nesfield...
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  • reflexive modifier 'sebya', applicable to all pronouns. Intensifier pronouns may be used to intensify the 'base' pronoun: "ona sama vidit" ("She-herself-sees)...
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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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  • referent of the pronoun is deduced indirectly from the context: this is found with personal pronouns, as well as with indefinite and dummy pronouns. With personal...
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  • distinct grammatical case that relates solely to prepositional pronouns. Certain genitive pronouns (e.g. a friend of hers; that dog of yours is as friendly...
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  • 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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  • for relative pronouns. Reflexive pronouns are used when a subject and object are the same, as in Ich wasche mich "I wash myself". The pronoun man refers...
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  • is an example of exophora. Dummy pronouns are used in many Germanic languages, including German and English. Pronoun-dropping languages such as Spanish...
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