personal pronoun

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

personal pronoun (plural personal pronouns)

1. A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following:
   1. The person or people speaking. (first person)
   2. The person or people spoken to. (second person)
   3. Another person or group of people. (third person)
2. Any pronoun, with an antecedent, standing in as the subject or object of a verb.

Translations

part of speech

• Albanian: përemër vetor m
• Armenian: անձնական դերանուն (hy) (anjnakan deranun)
• Belarusian: асабо́вы займе́ннік m (asabóvy zajmjénnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人稱代詞／人称代词 (zh) (rénchēng dàicí)

• Czech: osobní zájmeno n
• Danish: personligt pronomen n, personligt stedord n
• Dutch: persoonlijk voornaamwoord (nl) n
• Esperanto: persona pronomo
• Estonian: isikuline asesõna
• Finnish: persoonapronomini (fi)
• French: pronom personnel (fr) m
• Georgian: პირის ნაცვალსახელი (ṗiris nacvalsaxeli)
• German: Personalpronomen (de) n, persönliches Fürwort (de) n
• Greek: προσωπική αντωνυμία f (prosopikí antonymía)
• Hungarian: személyes névmás (hu)
• Icelandic: persónufornafn (is) n
• Indonesian: kata ganti orang (id)
• Interlingua: pronomine personal
• Irish: forainm pearsanta m
• Italian: pronome personale (it) m
• Japanese: 人称代名詞 (ja) (にんしょうだいめいし, ninshō-daimeishi)
• Korean: 인칭대명사 (ko) (inchingdaemyeongsa)
• Lithuanian: asmeninis įvardis m
• Macedonian: лична заменка f (lična zamenka)
• Nogai: оьзлик авыс (özlik avıs)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: personlig pronomen n

  Nynorsk: personleg pronomen n

• Polish: zaimek osobowy m inan
• Portuguese: pronome pessoal (pt) m
• Romanian: pronume personal (ro) n
• Russian: ли́чное местоиме́ние (ru) n (líčnoje mestoiménije)
• Slovene: osebni zaimek (sl) m
• Spanish: pronombre personal (es) m
• Swahili: kiwakilishi cha nafsi
• Swedish: personligt pronomen (sv) n
• Tagalog: panghalip panao
• Thai: บุรุษสรรพนาม (th) (bù-rùt-sà-sàp-pá-naam)
• Turkish: kişi zamiri (tr)
• Ukrainian: особи́стий займе́нник m (osobýstyj zajménnyk)
• Urdu: واحِد مُتَکَلِّم‎ m (vāḥid mutakallim)
• Vietnamese: đại từ nhân xưng, đại từ xưng hô, đại từ chỉ ngôi
• Welsh: rhagenw personol m

See also

• English inflection
• Appendix:English personal pronouns