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== How to indicate people including the listener | == How to indicate people excluding the speaker and including the listener == | ||
=== By the second-personal plural pronoun === | === By the second-personal plural pronoun === | ||
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Revision as of 14:58, 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 singular pronoun
The common way.
How to indicate the listener
By the second singular pronoun
The common way.
How to indicate a person being neither the speaker nor the listener
By the third singular pronoun
The common way.
How to indicate people including the speaker and excluding the listener
By the first-personal plural pronoun
The common way.
How to indicate people excluding the speaker and including the listener
By the second-personal plural pronoun
The common way.
How to indicate people including the speaker and the listener
By the first-personal plural pronoun
The common way.
How to indicate people excluding the speaker and the listener
By the third-person plural pronoun
The common way.
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
| 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 personal pronouns 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 |