Difference between revisions of "Language/Multiple-languages/Vocabulary/Pronouns"

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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 personal pronouns with gender ===
=== By personal pronouns and context ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!language
!language
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|Cantonese
|Cantonese
|佢
|佢
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|Finnish
|hän
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|o
|o
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=== By personal pronouns and context ===
{| class="wikitable"
|Armenian
|նա
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|-
|Cantonese
|佢
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|-
|Haitian
|li
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|Malay/Indonesian
|dia
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|-
|Persian
|او
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|Mandarin
|他, 她, 它, 牠, 祂
|read the same
|}
|}

Revision as of 10:42, 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.

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

By context

The common way.

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

The common way.

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 personal pronouns with gender

By personal pronouns and context

language word note
Armenian նա
Cantonese 佢
Finnish hän
Haitian li
Hungarian ő
Malay/Indonesian dia
Persian او
Mandarin 他, 她, 它, 牠, 祂 read the same
Swahili yeye
Turkish o
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