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)
   • 1983, Fred Small (lyrics and music), “Annie”, in The Heart of the Appaloosa:

     Mondays come with questions of couples
     Where and with whom did you go?
     Avoiding the personal pronoun
     She hopes it doesn't show
     Shopping with her lover in the city
     Two women holding hands don't get a stare
     If the kids at school knew what they do
     Would they hate her? Why should they care?

2. Any pronoun, with an antecedent, standing in as the subject or object of a verb.

Hypernyms

• pronoun

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), pronomina persona (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), şahıs 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

Further reading

• personal pronoun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia