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- ## It starts with the pronoun "be" for "it," which refers to the reason why. The pronoun "be" ("he, she, it") refers to just one individual or item. To make it plur192 KB (30,893 words) - 08:45, 6 February 2015
- | she/it/he: pronoun: 3rd person: singular: honored | she/it/he: pronoun, 3rd person, singular, despised169 KB (27,145 words) - 12:15, 18 December 2015
- '''a bu''' <small>[pronoun]</small> — ''a'' (letter) '''bu''' — turn one word into letter pronoun710 KB (115,361 words) - 08:13, 2 May 2018
- ! '''person''' ||colspan="2"| '''subject pronoun''' ...m the categorisation for English because of the way the formal form of the pronoun ''you'' works in Lojban.77 KB (11,941 words) - 08:57, 30 June 2014
- == Categorical pronoun set == * '''reu''' : [KOhA] categorical pronoun: person (prenu); Note: '''zo prenu cu eutca''' ('''eutca''' defined below);13 KB (1,757 words) - 12:34, 20 July 2016
- Yes, I just feel that using the second person pronoun in vocatives ...xample, officially anaphorize the sumti behind {tu'a} with a coreferential pronoun (you can with a literal one, of couse, but then it means something differen4.12 MB (665,740 words) - 16:32, 2 March 2020
- Yes, I just feel that using the second person pronoun in vocatives ...xample, officially anaphorize the sumti behind {tu'a} with a coreferential pronoun (you can with a literal one, of couse, but then it means something differen2.07 MB (380,774 words) - 07:40, 7 March 2020
- '''3-32.''' lemi links a descriptor and a demonstrative pronoun to form a 'possessive' descriptor. levi links a descriptor and a tense to f ...ed. Typically, the speaker will physically indicate (demonstrate) what the pronoun stands for when using it. 'This' and 'that' are demonstratives in English.243 KB (42,050 words) - 13:59, 17 December 2014
- ...without a quantifier) or is it a pronoun for indifferent terms or is it a pronoun for obvious terms or is it yet something else again. Much of the apparent v > open variable (one without a quantifier) or is it a pronoun for indifferent343 KB (53,196 words) - 08:07, 27 January 2015
- ...ronouns or anaphoric expressions may also be called ''d-type'' or ''e-type pronoun'', depending on theoretical approach to [[interpretation (logic)|interpreta A donkey pronoun is a [[pronoun]] that is [[Bound variable pronoun|bound]] in [[semantics]] but not [[syntax]].<ref>16 KB (2,153 words) - 04:58, 19 October 2014
- ...he word 'unicorn' contains yttrium" (or whatever the letter 'y', used as a pronoun, stands for). -phma > used as a pronoun, stands for). -phma67 KB (10,194 words) - 08:00, 27 January 2015
- ...ojban, there is a special imperative pronoun "ko". This is a second person pronoun logically equivalent to "do", the normal Lojban word for 'you', but conveyi ...beginning, but the embedded clause is in normal order, using the relative pronoun "ke'a" at the appropriate location to represent whatever is being elaborate441 KB (72,114 words) - 00:44, 18 August 2020
- The latter, preferrably linking them with a pronoun a full form rather than a pronoun. Suppose195 KB (30,458 words) - 09:29, 27 January 2015
- @mukti: I'm fine by "they" being used as an overall default pronoun. Is your pronoun hän? :)62 KB (10,411 words) - 21:41, 22 November 2022
- ...through a sequence in which changes may occur. While the norm is that the pronoun keeps the same referent(s) throughout, a mark is needed to indicate that th ...hat. The basic reference of the pronoun remains the general case, but the pronoun may take partitive quantifiers to indicate parts of that general referent,6 KB (977 words) - 08:26, 30 June 2014
- ...so much at the lujvo, as at the fact that it was followed immediately by a pronoun, without a preposition. Two years of written Lojban, and now I notice the a ...he Hebrew type, with a marker at the beginning of the clause ("poi") and a pronoun within the clause referring back to the relativized argument ("ke'a").462 KB (78,745 words) - 18:34, 20 August 2020
- Otherwise we seem to have just some odd pronoun. Otherwise we seem to have just some odd pronoun.158 KB (24,606 words) - 09:39, 27 January 2015
- ...imperative form is understood as being in the second person (the subject [[pronoun]] ''you'' is usually omitted, although it can be included for emphasis), wi ...languages, even not normally [[null-subject language]]s, omit the subject pronoun in imperative sentences, as usually occurs in English (see [[#English|below16 KB (2,296 words) - 09:14, 30 June 2014
- ...ed to something at a medium distance from the speaker, and the now-archaic pronoun “yon” to something far away. It is important to distinguish between the English pronoun “this” and the English adjective “this” as in “this boat”. The56 KB (8,955 words) - 06:49, 26 December 2017
- the pronoun "ko'a" to something else my cat does not become that something > the pronoun "ko'a" to something else my cat does not become that608 KB (95,583 words) - 09:14, 27 January 2015
- ...pronoun '''mi''' (''I'') and the second place (''x<sub>2</sub>'') with the pronoun '''do''' (''you''). !pronoun22 KB (3,576 words) - 06:27, 26 September 2018
- As late as the 16th century, English did too; the pronoun "this" referred to something at a medium distance from the speaker, and the now-archaic pronoun33 KB (5,598 words) - 15:48, 1 July 2019
- * "where" /wɛə/ [interrogative pronoun] 1. ma ◆ where did you go? → do pu klama ma ◆ where do you come from? * "where" /wɛə/ [relative pronoun] 1. (introducing restrictive information) → poi bu'u ke'a ◆ This is the22 KB (3,648 words) - 16:30, 18 April 2020
- ...ly a pronoun (in the recommendations section, the issue of which term that pronoun is will be dealt with). Using {ko’a} etc. saves repeating longer terms w ...urse, when one term is a description or a name and the other an assignable pronoun ({ko’V/fo’V}) the direction is clear; but if both are of that latter so11 KB (1,958 words) - 08:31, 30 June 2014
- In the case of quantified {le}, when the pronoun is within the scope of the quantifier, shouldn't it behave like da rather t ...not, is a single number, so the boi is needed to separate quantifier from pronoun.]]3 KB (486 words) - 08:36, 15 June 2015
- ...ould work with the pronouns, since a listener wouldn't know what any given pronoun meant without knowing the entire set. ...y without knowing "thou", for example, although certainly it is a personal pronoun contrasting with "I" and "you" and the rest. The occasions for its use (in175 KB (28,521 words) - 11:27, 28 July 2014
- Is it a pronoun, like other lerfu strings? Is it a pronoun, like other lerfu strings?54 KB (9,200 words) - 11:18, 21 October 2014
- when a lerfu pronoun is quantified, and when a lerfu pronoun is165 KB (25,047 words) - 15:03, 26 January 2015
- * relative pronoun * elliptical pronoun8 KB (1,347 words) - 23:05, 3 April 2020
- But remember that pronoun + '''je''' works. So what about So what we need here is a dummy word, possibly a pronoun. '''zo'e''' is nice but a two syllable one.26 KB (3,302 words) - 12:15, 18 December 2015
- ...o the sumti to which the clause is attached. It is a referential-anaphoric pronoun of restricted use, then. The standard seems to be that {{jvs|ke'a}} can be ...of {{jvs|zo'e}} in yet a third sense, where it turns up as an independent pronoun, not just filling a place but capable of being further modified: {{jvs|zo'i11 KB (1,961 words) - 11:39, 7 March 2015
- ! Pronoun ! Pronoun914 bytes (129 words) - 10:36, 8 January 2016
- ...mantic structure -- and probably a stripped down one at that. Thus, a pronoun system that relies upon the position of its anaphorizes phrase in either th ...nothing else). This does not mean that we should give up the quest for a pronoun system, only that we should stick to means built on reliable principles and9 KB (1,507 words) - 08:30, 30 June 2014
- ...clause where the relative relates to the clause is filled by the relative pronoun (''lau''). ...listic reasons, nominalize with ''cen'' (abstraction) and use ''lau'' as a pronoun to represent the restricted phrase, with its proper case tag. This will be20 KB (3,381 words) - 07:10, 21 July 2014
- ====== ‘pronoun' sumti ====== There is a special imperative pronoun ko. This is a second person pronoun logically equivalent to do, the normal Lojban word for ‘you', but conveyi450 KB (65,465 words) - 09:45, 12 March 2016
- ...ri are marked with "cu" or a tense; especially when following an anaphora (pronoun). In "mi klama", "mi" is a sumti and "klama" is a selbri. However, "lemi kl ...ng sumti. The following sumti is always identifiable by either an anaphora pronoun or a descriptor like "le", so no separator is needed.168 KB (28,688 words) - 00:50, 13 August 2020
- ...ics. (English customarily subsumes the feminine under the masculine in its pronoun system, as in expressions like "To each his own.") In the disciplines custo ...belong, because the author has used the impersonal "you"/"someone". If the pronoun had been "mi", the attitudinals are vital. There are SOME attitudinals that336 KB (55,342 words) - 10:07, 18 August 2020
- ...s problem before - so it will still often be possible to omit the relative pronoun. One last possibility would be that "noi" clauses always refer to S and "po ...an: Lojban resolved this by making use of a special "imperative 2nd person pronoun" which may appear as any argument, thus permitting more complex imperative565 KB (90,076 words) - 03:40, 22 August 2020
- * .i fanva zo sumbasti .e zo sumyma'o lo glico fu zoi .gy. pronoun .gy.3 KB (530 words) - 06:19, 14 June 2014
- ...n only what you want them to at the time you use them - the attachment of 'pronoun' to referent does not remained fixed as it does for "ko'a" and its free var68 KB (11,393 words) - 05:25, 19 August 2020
- Mid-sentence prenex with nested pronoun:3 KB (541 words) - 08:36, 16 January 2016
- meaning that the referent of the pronoun will be the locus and101 KB (16,530 words) - 09:25, 27 January 2015
- pronoun <i>himself</i>, etc.</p>31 KB (5,779 words) - 08:57, 30 June 2014
- :So when put after certain part of the phrase like pronoun or a verb it modifies that verb.151 KB (25,533 words) - 13:19, 10 October 2023
- ...ou'' corresponds to French ''Vous'': it's a polite vs. intimate (''Thou'') pronoun. The scene where Hamlet talks to Gertrude before he kills Polonius ("Come c8 KB (1,282 words) - 08:16, 30 June 2014
- ...n) to see sloppy pronouns when Lojban has so many specific mechanisms for 'pronoun' anaphora (oops! I promised to use "ba'ivla".)265 KB (44,779 words) - 00:42, 18 August 2020
- | For such a frequently used pronoun, "ko'a" is quite long.2 KB (345 words) - 11:10, 15 December 2016
- ...ut in a usage note that clarifies that a string of lerfu, on its own, is a pronoun that stands for some other object, not for that string of letters, and that13 KB (1,870 words) - 09:39, 27 January 2015
- ...></span><p>96-1: <b>se viene</b>: <i>he will come along</i>. The reflexive pronoun, so35 KB (6,507 words) - 08:57, 30 June 2014
- ...i''' ("tomorrow") is a rafsi for "day", not the cmavo '''dei''', a special pronoun meaning "this sentence". We know which is which because Lojban words can't33 KB (5,296 words) - 10:36, 21 April 2024
- .i go'i a pronoun which stands for the last thing that was said; go'i "yes"4 KB (700 words) - 14:49, 23 March 2014
- ...Getting on with it, what gender is Terry? [to determine the gender of the pronoun translating "ri".]289 KB (46,480 words) - 05:22, 19 August 2020
- ...any rules about any other kind of anaphora, that to move from variable to pronoun is always to introduce unclarity. The one problem with explicit variables16 KB (2,995 words) - 08:38, 30 June 2014
- ...'''me me'o''' is required though, as bare '''cy''' refers to the variable-pronoun that bare Lojban letter-cmavo stands for, not the letter itself)9 KB (1,440 words) - 14:21, 16 January 2020
- etc., the dative pronoun also being often added to indicate the23 KB (4,401 words) - 09:07, 30 June 2014
- description or not, such as pronoun possessives like51 KB (7,561 words) - 16:25, 23 March 2014
- ...t immediately precede a verb or a postposition, thus acting as a reflexive pronoun only;2 KB (247 words) - 08:59, 27 February 2015
- ...ribe someone who is despised). The suffix ''-zh'' is used to mark a plural pronoun for numbers up to four, and ''-n'' for numbers beyond that. Therefore, ''la14 KB (2,183 words) - 14:30, 7 March 2015
- ...wish to apply definiteness/indefiniteness to '''da''' (or any ''sumka'i''/pronoun, really), use '''le me da''' or '''lo'e me da'''.11 KB (1,767 words) - 06:53, 17 July 2015
- ...15n7"></span><p>15-7: <b>Se lo suplica a V.</b>: <i>Se = le</i>, redundant pronoun anticipating24 KB (4,359 words) - 09:07, 30 June 2014
- <li> <a href="../../natlang/en/pronoun, pseudonym">pronoun, pseudonym</a> </li>69 KB (11,244 words) - 15:08, 23 March 2014
- ...st is "¯ra", which is called "obviative", or "fourth person". An obviative pronoun is a feature of some languages which is used to disambiguate multiple refer26 KB (4,541 words) - 12:42, 13 August 2014
- �"pronoun" sumti:80 KB (11,497 words) - 08:45, 30 June 2014
- ''pronoun'' – '''lo sumti'''152 KB (18,730 words) - 08:12, 2 May 2018
- pronoun <i>himself</i>, etc.</p>31 KB (5,779 words) - 09:07, 30 June 2014
- *** 'pronoun' sumti -- Should mention that these are also call pro-sumti. That was very10 KB (1,586 words) - 08:19, 30 June 2014
- 144 KB (3,121 words) - 10:23, 30 October 2014
- ...e clauses, with the pair of words '''''kri...kro''''' delimiting them. The pronoun '''''kwi,''''' is inserted in the clause as the relative, but does not alte20 KB (3,035 words) - 08:45, 30 June 2014
- goilka'i: x1 (quoted-pronoun or object) is a variable representing x2 (any sumti).4 KB (620 words) - 15:07, 1 August 2015
- ...></span><p>96-1: <b>se viene</b>: <i>he will come along</i>. The reflexive pronoun, so35 KB (6,507 words) - 09:07, 30 June 2014
- ...o the inflectional form indicating the grammatical function of the noun or pronoun. In English, nouns have only two cases, a common case (the boy is here, I175 KB (29,145 words) - 14:59, 23 March 2014
- ...explicit quantifier. This semantic point aside, they function like other pronoun terms.51 KB (8,956 words) - 08:21, 30 June 2014
- sumti or its pronoun (though that latter is not27 KB (4,051 words) - 11:10, 26 January 2015
- :noun/pronoun/personal name. An object or idea which may be related to others, that relat214 bytes (33 words) - 08:10, 24 March 2014
- personal pronoun", would be interpreted as "cmavo be zo do", and have151 KB (26,633 words) - 15:49, 1 July 2019
- ...t can introduce a noun phrase/sumti, whether a description or not, such as pronoun possessives like lemi, quantifiers (especially in indefinites) like ci and292 KB (41,728 words) - 07:56, 7 May 2014
- ...s is not correct. It should be lemi me da gudbi letu me da. me turns the pronoun da into something which the le can take (that is, it becomes the equivalent130 KB (20,488 words) - 14:51, 23 March 2014
- ...would do roughly the same thing as {ckire}) and also assign the assignable pronoun {do} -- vocatives are supported now, we just need to fill them in -- Also,16 KB (2,708 words) - 08:22, 30 June 2014
- English, but using {cisma bu} as a pronoun is not186 KB (28,255 words) - 14:45, 26 January 2015
- "day," not the ''{ALINK(aname=>cmavo)}cmavo{ALINK}''''dei'', a special pronoun meaning "this sentence." We39 KB (6,377 words) - 08:52, 30 June 2014
- ...s an apple, we use the word '''ke'a''', which is a '''sumka'i''' (a Lojban pronoun, more on them later) representing the sumti which the relative clause is at4 KB (712 words) - 22:46, 26 June 2016
- ...ridical/non-veridical and mass/individual distinctions, and the imperative pronoun '''ko'''.1 KB (189 words) - 07:32, 2 October 2014
- ...icit subject – the subject is understood to be the first-person [[personal pronoun]], and this information is marked by the way the verbs are [[inflection|inf9 KB (1,435 words) - 10:24, 22 May 2014
- ...a "pro-''sumti''", a word that stands in for a ''sumti'', like an English pronoun stands in for a noun99 KB (16,833 words) - 09:59, 12 May 2017
- a variable/pronoun referring to something. {ba'e bu} might be more127 KB (19,114 words) - 15:11, 26 January 2015
- ***x1=cmavo1 is a second person pronoun in language x2=cmavo49 KB (1,389 words) - 08:54, 30 June 2014
- ...называется смешанным термином pro-sumti. (от англ. noun - существительное, pronoun - местоимение - прим. переводчика). Чисто л4 KB (46 words) - 12:40, 11 December 2017
- ...with {ro} or {piro}) may change reference at each occurrence (but not with pronoun anaphora). A {PA le broda}, for examples, can also be made a constant by p32 KB (5,870 words) - 08:13, 30 June 2014
- ...not of the same kind: {{vla|mi}} is a pro-sumti (the Lojban analogue of a pronoun) referring to the speaker, whereas65 KB (10,572 words) - 06:49, 26 December 2017
- ***Since English personal pronoun '''one''' means "a me-ish sort of person", [[User:And Rosta|And Rosta]] hav7 KB (1,059 words) - 16:21, 28 December 2017
- is presumably acting as a pronoun.93 KB (14,094 words) - 08:00, 27 January 2015
- etc., the dative pronoun also being often added to indicate the23 KB (4,401 words) - 08:56, 30 June 2014
- ...cal implications are very different. Gender is hard-coded into the English pronoun (as is number, btw), whereas it takes a voluntary effort by the Lojban spea2 KB (297 words) - 14:44, 28 April 2021
- ...das as {su’o lo broda} referred to, one had to use a referential anaphoric pronoun or {le broda} (with some descriptive component still functioning in this ca24 KB (4,143 words) - 08:13, 30 June 2014
- ...nted and many are amazed by his dancing'' (mid-sentence prenex with nested pronoun)2 KB (287 words) - 20:17, 14 January 2016
- noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, interjection, preposition, phrase7 KB (1,199 words) - 05:53, 11 July 2014
- ...variables and thus generally refer to different things, while {ce'u} and a pronoun that picks it up must refer to the same thing.261 KB (39,865 words) - 09:17, 27 January 2015
- ...15n7"></span><p>15-7: <b>Se lo suplica a V.</b>: <i>Se = le</i>, redundant pronoun anticipating24 KB (4,359 words) - 08:56, 30 June 2014
- ...tification rebinding {da} (as opposed to reusing an older {da} as a donkey pronoun).16 KB (2,611 words) - 22:06, 4 November 2021