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==== By the third-person singular pronoun. ==== | ==== By the third-person singular pronoun. ==== | ||
=== How to indicate people including the speaker and excluding the listener | === How to indicate people including the speaker and excluding the listener? === | ||
==== By the first-person plural pronoun. ==== | ==== By the first-person plural pronoun (exclusive “we”). ==== | ||
=== How to indicate people excluding the speaker and including the listener? === | === How to indicate people excluding the speaker and including the listener? === | ||
==== By the second-person plural pronoun. ==== | ==== By the second-person plural pronoun. ==== | ||
=== How to indicate people including the speaker and the listener | === How to indicate people including the speaker and the listener? === | ||
==== By the first-person plural pronoun. ==== | ==== By the first-person plural pronoun (inclusive “we”). ==== | ||
=== How to indicate people excluding the speaker and the listener? === | === How to indicate people excluding the speaker and the listener? === |
Revision as of 16:02, 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.
Far from being completed.
pronoun
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 (exclusive “we”).
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 (inclusive “we”).
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?
By the context.
By the animate and inanimate pronoun.
language | word | note |
---|---|---|
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 the no-gender pronoun.
By the human and animal pronouns.
language | word | note |
---|---|---|
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 | 佢 | |
Chinese Mandarin | 他; 她 | read the same |
Filipino | siya | |
Finnish | hän | |
Haitian | li | |
Hindi | वह | |
Hungarian | ő | |
Igbo | ọ | |
Malay/Indonesian | dia | |
Persian | او | |
Swahili | yeye | |
Turkish | o | |
Punjabi | ਉਹ | |
Shona | iye | |
Urdu | وہ |