PRON: pronoun
Definition
Pronouns are words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases, whose meaning is recoverable from the linguistic or extralinguistic context.
Possessive pronouns and personal pronoun are annotated as pronouns.
See PROPN for proper nouns and NOUN for nouns.
Examples of pronouns in Naija :
- first-person, singular
- I (personal pronoun, subject) : I want drive.
- me (personal pronoun, complement) : Follow me.
- ma (possessive pronoun) : I go look for one of ma boy.
- second-person, singular/plural
- you (personal pronoun, subject) : You dey drive.
- you (personal pronoun, complement) : e fit sharply carry you.
- your (possessive pronoun) : Your tyre dey very important.
- third-person, singular
- im (personal pronoun , subject) : Im pick di call.
- us (personal pronoun, complement) : Im go fit help us.
- im (possessive determiner) : Im daughter fall from three storey build for school.
- first-person, plural
- we (personal pronoun, subject) : We see di man.
- you (personal pronoun, complement) : e fit sharply carry you.
- our (possessive pronoun) : We never send our pikin go school.
- third-person, plural
- dem (personal pronoun , subject) : Dem dey always talk.
- am (personal pronoun, complement) : Make sure sey you no leave am.
- deir (possessive determiner) : For di rest of deir life.
- una (generic pronoun)
- Make una try.
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]