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== How to tell the person being referenced is male or female ==
== How to tell the person being referenced is male or female ==
=== By personal pronouns with gender ===
=== By the third-person singular pronouns with gender ===
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Revision as of 15:03, 16 October 2018

If you have learned some languages, you will want to ask a question like this: what can I do to express something in this language.

Different languages have different answers. Here we see answers from Nigro-Congo, Austronesian, Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Afroasiatic, Austroasiatic, Dravidian, Japonic, language isolate, which are the popular and are support on Google Translate.

Far from being completed.

How to indicate the speaker

By the first-person singular pronoun

How to indicate the listener

By the second-person singular pronoun

How to indicate a person being neither the speaker nor the listener

By the third-person singular pronoun

How to indicate people including the speaker and excluding the listener

By the first-person plural pronoun

How to indicate people excluding the speaker and including the listener

By the second-person plural pronoun

How to indicate people including the speaker and the listener

By the first-person plural pronoun

How to indicate people excluding the speaker and the listener

By the third-person plural pronoun

How to tell the one being referenced is animate or inanimate things

By context

By animate and inanimate pronouns

Finnish se/ne for inanimate and non-human animate things
Persian آن for singular inanimate things
Thai มัน for inanimate and non-human animate things

How to tell the one being referenced is human or animal

By no-gender pronouns

By human and animal pronouns

Finnish se/ne for inanimate and non-human animate things
Thai มัน for inanimate and non-human animate things

How to tell the person being referenced is male or female

By the third-person singular pronouns with gender

language word note
Amharic እሱ; እሷ
Arabic هو; هي
Basque he; zuen
Bengali তিনি; সে
Burmese သူ; သူမ
English he; she
French il; elle
German er; sie
Hausa shi; ta
Hebrew הוא; היא
Italian lui; lei
Japanese 彼; 彼女
Javanese piyambakipun; dheweke
Kannada ಅವನು; ಅವಳು
Khmer គាត់; នាង
Korean 그; 그녀
Malayalam അവൻ; അവൾ
Portuguese ele; ela
Russian он; она
Somali isagu; iyada
Spanish él; ella
Tamil அவர்; அவள்
Telugu అతను; ఆమె
Vietnamese anh ta; bà ấy
Yoruba oun; o

By the third-person singular pronoun and context

language word note
Chinese Cantonese
Chinese Mandarin 他; 她 read the same
Filipino siya
Finnish hän
Haitian li
Hindi वह
Hungarian ő
Igbo
Malay/Indonesian dia
Persian او
Swahili yeye
Turkish o
Punjabi ਉਹ
Shona iye
Urdu وہ