English
Etymology
pro- + noun , modeled on Middle French pronom , from Latin pronomen , itself a calque of Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντωνῠμῐ́ᾱ ( antōnumíā ) .
Pronunciation
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Noun
pronoun (plural pronouns )
( grammar ) A type of noun that refers anaphorically to another noun or noun phrase , but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective . English examples include I, you, him, who, me, my, each other .
2013 , Nicholas Brownless, “Spoken Discourse in Early English Newspapers”, in Joad Raymond, editor, News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe , page 72 :As here the possessive pronoun 'our' has inclusive reference in that it a priori includes both the editor and reader, its presense amounts to a kind of pronominal bonding between writer and reader.
2014 , N. M. Gwynne, Gwynne's Latin: The Ultimate Introduction to Latin Including the Latin in Everyday English , Random House (ebook without page numbers):Meus and tuus are called adjectival pronouns – or alternatively possessive adjectives .
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Translations
type of noun
Afrikaans: voornaamwoord (af)
Albanian: përemri (sq) m
Amharic: ተውላጠ ስም ( täwlaṭä səm )
Arabic: ضَمِير (ar) m ( ḍamīr ) , ضَمَائِرُ (ar) m pl ( ḍamāʔiru )
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: դերանուն (hy) ( deranun )
Asturian: pronome (ast)
Azerbaijani: əvəzlik
Bashkir: алмаш ( almaş )
Basque: izenordain
Belarusian: займе́ннік m ( zajmjénnik )
Bengali: সর্বনাম ( sôrbônam )
Bishnupriya Manipuri: please add this translation if you can
Breton: raganv (br) m
Bulgarian: местоиме́ние (bg) n ( mestoiménie )
Burmese: နာမ်စား (my) ( namca: )
Catalan: pronom (ca) m
Chamorro: klå'an
Chechen: цӏерметдош ( cʼermetdoš )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 代詞 / 代词 ( doi6 ci4 ) , 代词 ( doi6 ci4 )
Mandarin: 代詞 / 代词 (zh) ( dàicí ) , 代词 (zh) ( dàicí ) , 代名詞 / 代名词 (zh) ( dàimíngcí ) , 代名词 (zh) ( dàimíngcí )
Min Nan: 代詞 / 代词 , 代词 ( tāi-sû )
Chuvash: местоимени ( mestoimeni ) , ылмаш ( ylmaš )
Crimean Tatar: zamir
Czech: zájmeno (cs) n
Danish: pronomen (da) , stedord (da)
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: voornaamwoord (nl) n
Erzya: таркасвал ( tarkasval )
Esperanto: pronomo (eo)
Estonian: asesõna , pronoomen (et)
Ewe: nuŋkɔteƒenɔnya
Faroese: fornavn n
Finnish: asemo (fi) , pronomini (fi)
Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
French: pronom (fr) m
Friulian: please add this translation if you can
Galician: pronome (gl)
Georgian: ნაცვალსახელი ( nacvalsaxeli )
German: Fürwort (de) n , Personwort n , Personenwort n , Pronomen (de) n , Pronom (de) n
Middle High German: vornam
Greek: αντωνυμία (el) f ( antonymía )
Ancient: ἀντωνυμία f ( antōnumía ) , ἀντώνυμον n ( antṓnumon )
Hebrew: כִּנּוּי גּוּף / כנוי גוף (he) m ( kinoi guf )
Hindi: सर्वनाम (hi) m ( sarvanām )
Hungarian: névmás (hu)
Icelandic: fornafn (is) n
Ido: pronomo (io)
Indonesian: pronomina (id)
Interlingua: pronomine (ia)
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Irish: forainm (ga) m
Italian: pronome (it) m
Japanese: 代名詞 (ja) ( だいめいし, daimeishi )
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kalmyk: орч нерн ( orç nern )
Kapampangan: panalili
Kazakh: есімдік (kk) ( esımdık )
Khmer: សព្វនាម (km) ( sɑppĕəʼniəm )
Korean: 대명사 (ko) ( daemyeongsa ) (代名詞 (ko) )
Kumyk: орунча ( orunça )
Kyrgyz: жактама (ky) ( jaktama )
Lao: ສັບພະນາມ ( sap pha nām )
Latin: prōnōmen n , prōvocābulum
Latvian: vietniekvārds m
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Limburgish: veurnaamwaord n
Lingala: likitana
Lithuanian: įvardis (lt) m
Macedonian: заменка f ( zamenka )
Malay: kata ganti diri
Malayalam: സർവ്വനാമം ( saṟvvanāmaṁ )
Maltese: pronom (mt) m
Maori: tūkapi , kupu tūkapi
Mongolian: төлөөний нэр ( tölöönii ner )
Nahuatl: tlācatōcāitl
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Newar: please add this translation if you can
Norman: pronom m
Northern Sami: pronomen
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pronomen (no)
Nynorsk: pronomen (nn)
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Occitan: pronom (oc) m
Old English: bīnama m
Ossetian: номивӕг ( nomivæg )
Pashto: ضمير (ps) m ( zamír )
Persian: ضمیر (fa) ( zamir ) , پیشنام ( pišnâm )
Polish: zaimek (pl) m
Portuguese: pronome (pt) m
Quechua: sutip rantin , sutiranti
Romanian: pronume (ro) n
Russian: местоиме́ние (ru) n ( mestoiménije )
Rusyn: містоназывник m ( mistonazŷvnyk )
Scots: pronoun
Scottish Gaelic: riochdair
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: заменица f
Roman: zamenica f
Sicilian: prunomu (scn) m
Slovak: zámeno (sk) n
Slovene: zaímek (sl) m
Southern Altai: солума ( soluma )
Spanish: pronombre (es) m
Sundanese: please add this translation if you can
Swahili: dhamiri , kijina , kiwakilishi
Swedish: pronomen (sv) n
Tagalog: panghalip (tl)
Tajik: ҷонишин (tg) ( jonišin ) , замир ( zamir )
Tamil: பெயர்ச்சொல் (ta) ( peyarccol )
Tatar: алмашлык (tt) ( almaşlıq )
Telugu: సర్వనామము (te) ( sarvanāmamu )
Thai: สรรพนาม (th) ( sàp-pá-naam )
Tibetan: མིང་ཚབ ( ming tshab )
Turkish: zamir (tr) , ivazlık , almaş (tr)
Turkmen: çalyşma (tk)
Ukrainian: займе́нник (uk) m ( zajménnyk )
Urdu: ضمیر (ur) m ( zamīr )
Uyghur: ئالماش ( almash )
Uzbek: olmosh (uz)
Vietnamese: đại từ (vi) (代詞 )
Volapük: pönop (vo)
Walloon: prono (wa)
Waray-Waray: imbesngaran , taligngaran , talingaran , talingáran
Welsh: rhagenw m
West Frisian: foarnamwurd (fy) n
Yiddish: פּראָנאָם m ( pronom )
Zazaki: zemir , pesname , pesname , pesname
Zulu: isabizwana class 7 /8
See also