PRON: pronoun
PRON
Definition
Pronouns are words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases, whose meaning is recoverable from the linguistic or extralinguistic context.
Examples
- personal pronouns:
- ja, ty, toj, tja, to, nýje, výje, tíje, to, to “I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they”
- móne, tébe, tóga, týje, to, námi, vámi, tæh, to, to “me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them”
- móne, tébe, tómu, tój, tómu, námi, vámi, tæm “to me, to you, to him, her, it, to us, to you, to them”
- mí, tí, mú, jí, mú, nú, vú, mí “my, your, his, hers, its, our, your, theirs”
- possessive personal pronouns (short forms):
- mi, ti, mu, ji, mu, nu, vu, mi “me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them”
- reflexive personal pronouns:
- sá/sé/só
- déteto só upláša “the child was afraid”
- sí
- kúpih sí kóšto “I bought a house [for myself]”
- sá/sé/só
- interrogative pronouns:
- kaná “what”
- kaná hesebíš? “what are you thinking?”
- kaná “what”
- relative pronouns:
- kanása / kanáta / kanána “whatever here - proximal / whatever there -medial / whatever over there - distal”
- kanáta mí paíska stórih go “whatever (by you) you have asked [me], I have done [it]”
- kanása / kanáta / kanána “whatever here - proximal / whatever there -medial / whatever over there - distal”
- negative pronouns:
- ní kaná “nothing” “anything”
- ní kaná só na sétih “I understood nothing” - “I did not understand anything” [lit. “nothing I not understood”]
- ní kaná “nothing” “anything”
- collective pronouns:
- síčko / síčkoso / síčkoto / síčkono “all / everything”
- síčko íma faf kóštono “he has everything at home” [lit.”everything he has at home”]
- síčkono go predáva “he sells everything”
- síčko / síčkoso / síčkoto / síčkono “all / everything”
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]