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=== By personal pronouns === | === By personal pronouns === | ||
This is the common way. I haven't found another answer yet, but maybe I can later. | This is the common way. I haven't found another answer yet, but maybe I can later. | ||
== How to tell the one being referenced is animate or inanimate things == | |||
== How to tell the one being referenced is human or animal == | |||
== How to tell the person being referenced is male or female == | == How to tell the person being referenced is male or female == | ||
Revision as of 06:40, 15 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.
How to differentiate the speaker and the listener and the person being referenced
By personal pronouns
This is the common way. I haven't found another answer yet, but maybe I can later.
How to tell the one being referenced is animate or inanimate things
How to tell the one being referenced is human or animal
How to tell the person being referenced is male or female
By personal pronouns with gender
This is very common. But not every language does so.
By personal pronouns and context
| Cantonese | 佢 |
| Armenian | նա |
| Persian | او |
| Mandarin | 他, 她, 它, 牠, 祂 (read the same) |