PRON: pronoun
Definition
Pronouns are words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases. Their meaning is recoverable from the linguistic or extralinguistic context.
Examples
- Personal (subject) pronouns: jeg “I”, du “you”, han “he”, hun “she”, det/den “it”, vi “we”, I “you (pl.)” , de “they”
- Placeholder personal pronoun: man “one” as in man kan gå “one can go”
- Personal (object)/reflexive pronouns: mig “me/myself”, dig “you/yourself”, ham “him”, henne “her”, sig “itself/himself/herself/themselves”, os “us/ourselves”, hinanden “one another/each other”
- Demonstrative pronouns: dette “that/this” as in dette er et svært spørgsmål “that is a difficult question”
- Possessive pronouns: vores “ours”
- Interrogative pronouns: hvad “what”
- Relative pronouns: hvis “whose”
- Indefinite pronouns: nogen “someone/anybody”, noget “something/anything”
- Totality pronouns: alting “everything”
- Negative pronouns: ingen “no/none” as in ingen af os “none of us”
PRON in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [nci] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sla] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]