relative pronoun

See also: relative-pronoun

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

Examples
the woman who is wearing the funny hat the funny hat that is on her head

relative pronoun (plural relative pronouns)

1. (grammar) A pronoun that introduces a relative clause and refers to an antecedent. In English, some words that can be used as interrogative pronouns can alternatively be used as relative pronouns: which, who, whose, whom and (non-standard) what. The other English relative pronouns are whoever, whomever, whatever, and that.

Translations

pronoun that introduces a relative clause

• Asturian: pronome rellativu m
• Azerbaijani: nisbi əvəzlik
• Breton: ger stagañ
• Catalan: pronom relatiu m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 關係代名詞 / 关系代名词 (gwaan¹ hai⁶ doi⁶ ming⁴ ci⁴)

  Mandarin: 關係代名詞 / 关系代名词 (guānxi dàimíngcí)

• Czech: vztažné zájmeno n
• Danish: relativpronomen n, relativt pronomen, henførende stedord n
• Dutch: betrekkelijk voornaamwoord (nl) n
• Esperanto: rilata pronomo
• Faroese: afturbeint fornavn n
• Finnish: relatiivipronomini (fi)
• French: pronom relatif (fr) m
• Galician: pronome relativo m
• Georgian: მიმართებითი ნაცვალსახელი (mimartebiti nacvalsaxeli)
• German: Relativpronomen (de) n
• Hungarian: vonatkozó névmás (hu)
• Icelandic: tilvísunarfornafn (is) n
• Irish: forainm coibhneasta m
• Italian: pronome relativo (it)
• Japanese: 関係代名詞 (ja) (かんけいだいめいし, kankei-daimeishi)
• Latin: pronomen relativum
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: холбох төлөөний нэр (xolbox tölöönii ner)

• Norwegian: relativt pronomen
• Polish: zaimek względny (pl) m
• Portuguese: pronome relativo (pt) m
• Romanian: pronume relativ (ro) n
• Russian: относи́тельное местоиме́ние (ru) n (otnosítelʹnoje mestoiménije)
• Spanish: pronombre relativo m
• Swedish: relativpronomen (sv)
• Tagalog: panghalip na pamanggit
• Thai: ประพันธสรรพนาม (th) (bprà-pan-tá-sàp-pá-naam)
• Turkish: ilgi adılı
• Vietnamese: đại từ quan hệ
• Welsh: rhagenw perthynol m

See also

• interrogative pronoun
• indefinite pronoun
• relative adjective
• relative adverb