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== How to indicate the speaker == | == How to indicate the speaker == | ||
=== By the first singular pronoun === | === By the first-person singular pronoun === | ||
== How to indicate the listener == | == How to indicate the listener == | ||
=== By the second singular pronoun === | === By the second-person singular pronoun === | ||
== How to indicate a person being neither the speaker nor the listener == | == How to indicate a person being neither the speaker nor the listener == | ||
=== By the third 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- | === By the first-person plural pronoun === | ||
== 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- | === 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- | === By the first-person plural pronoun === | ||
== How to indicate people excluding the speaker and the listener == | == How to indicate people excluding the speaker and the listener == | ||
=== By the third-person plural pronoun === | === By the third-person plural pronoun === | ||
== How to tell the one being referenced is animate or inanimate things == | == How to tell the one being referenced is animate or inanimate things == | ||
=== By context === | === By context === | ||
=== By animate and inanimate pronouns === | === By animate and inanimate pronouns === |
Revision as of 15:00, 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
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 |