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Generic you (532 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

("you")—just like in English—is sometimes used in the same sense as the indefinite pronoun man ("one").[citation needed] In Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, these

Soddo language (1,706 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Soddo (autonym kəstane "Christian"; formerly called Aymälläl in Western sources, after a particular dialect of it) is a Gurage language spoken by a quarter

Punic language (4,636 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pronouns was inflected. In Punic and Neo-Punic there was no exclusive indefinite pronoun. Whenever such a pronoun might be needed, it was circumscribed by

Tunica language (3,709 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

interrogative-indefinite pronoun, or a quantificative. The independent object may be an independent personal pronoun, a noun, an interrogative-indefinite pronoun,

Noun ellipsis (1,814 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

adjective to introduce N-ellipsis. Note that English employs the indefinite pronoun one to make such sentences acceptable, e.g. Fred watches stupid programs

Bavarian language (2,197 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"none", and oana, "one" are inflected the same way. There is also the indefinite pronoun ebba(d), "someone" with its impersonal form ebb(a)s, "something".

Portuguese grammar (7,442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an impersonal passive construction, with the agent replaced by an indefinite pronoun. Portuguese is generally an SVO language, although SOV syntax may

Mummu (650 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the word "mummu" also has several other definitions. It can be an indefinite pronoun meaning "someone, something"; as well as a noun meaning "craftsman

Kabardian grammar (8,981 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Eastern Circassian grammar (Kabardian: Къэбэрдеибзэ адыгабзэ), as described in this article, is the grammar of standard East Circassian also known as Kabardian

Y'all (1,757 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

associative plural, a collective pronoun, an institutional pronoun, and an indefinite pronoun. Y'all can in some instances serve as a "tone-setting device to express

Exeter Book Riddle 47 (277 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

strang adjective strong, powerful, bold, brave, severe sumes sum indefinite pronoun a certain one, someone, something swealg swelgan strong verb swallow

Neve'ei language (7,049 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

postmodifiers employed. As such, they follow the following formula: INDEFINITE PRONOUN + (POSSESSIVE POSTMODIFIER) + (DETERMINER) + (PLURAL POSTMODIFIER)

Singular they (10,636 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Usage In informal spoken English, plural pronouns are often used with indefinite pronoun antecedents. However, this construction is generally not considered

Central Atlas Tamazight grammar (2,270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

adopted by contact. Standard negation is accompanied by a negative indefinite pronoun, walu. Tamazight has a null copula. The words /ɡ/ /iʒ/ 'to be, to

Dagbani language (2,623 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

complex in its nature, such that they consist of two elements, an indefinite pronoun and an emphatic pronoun. Bi-a child so pro ŋʊn REL zu steal.PFV baa

Qaqet language (1,993 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

determining element: an article, a possessor index, a demonstrative or an indefinite pronoun, or combinations of these. The generic noun marker a contrasts with

Lingua Franca Nova grammar (3,002 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

etc. The exact dividing line is left to the speaker. There is an indefinite pronoun on, which is used like German "man" or French "on": On debe segue

Lapis Niger (2,406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

accentuated relative pronoun, but one could suppose that in the enclitic indefinite pronoun the dative could have early been reduced to quoiī. The e in auelod

Relative clause (12,739 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

non-human indefinite pronoun. In that case, lequel cannot be used because it must agree in gender with its head, and an indefinite pronoun has no gender

John Clibbens (1,176 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Research Clibbens, J. (in preparation): Children’s earliest use of the indefinite pronoun “one” in expressive speech. Target journal: Cognition Griffin, M.

Crow language (4,140 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

relativizers /ak/ and /ala/, several composite forms based on ala plus baa 'indefinite pronoun' and instances with no relativizer. /ak/ indicates the subject of

Hungarian verbs (5,791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

indefinite determiner (e.g. "any, some, every" but not "all [the]") an indefinite pronoun such as "something, anything, everyone" etc. an interrogative pronoun

Old French (7,273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

presbyterem) survives only in the Paris street name Rue des Prouvaires. ModF indefinite pronoun on "one" continues Old French nominative hom "man" (< homō); homme

Haida language (6,662 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pronoun ordering when one pronoun is less potent, for example the indefinite pronoun ga in 'laa ga 7isda-gan = ga 'la 7isda-gan 'she took some.' Sentences

Eastern Lombard grammar (4,529 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

redundant negative particles, Eastern Lombard doesn't. Thus, when an indefinite pronoun with negative value is already present in the sentence, the particle

African-American Vernacular English (10,874 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

not always so; see double negative). In a negative construction, an indefinite pronoun such as nobody or nothing can be inverted with the negative verb particle

Son of man (Christianity) (4,743 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

is a regular expression for man in general and often serves as an indefinite pronoun and in none of the extant texts does "son of man" figure as a title

Romanian grammar (5,151 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Indefinite Pronoun mult tot unul/una altul/alta atât puțin/nițel destul English translation much all one other so much/as much a little enough

Afroasiatic languages (10,899 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

not present in Proto-Afro-Asiatic, but rather derived from a PAA indefinite pronoun *m-. Such an etymology is rejected by A. Zaborski and Gábor Takács

Constituent (linguistics) (7,522 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

time. The one-substitution test replaces the test string with the indefinite pronoun one or ones. If the result is acceptable, then the test string is

Ingrian grammar (4,166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

morphologically distinct from the comparative. Instead, a form of the indefinite pronoun kaik ("all") is used together with the comparative: Furthermore, the

Gothic declension (3,586 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

plural form *ƕans (masculine accusative) occurs once as part of the indefinite pronoun ƕanzuh "each, every"; the other plurals are reconstructed. Hwas is

Estonian grammar (6,587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and the function of the indefinite article can be performed by the indefinite pronoun üks, developed from the numeral ‘one’. (Pajusalu 2001) a) See this

Esperanto grammar (8,943 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bread" li manĝis lian panon "he ate his (someone else's) bread" The indefinite pronoun is used when making general statements, and is often used where English

Old Norse morphology (4,982 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Strong Adjectival Declension jarpt (brown) gótt (good) nekkvęrt (indefinite pronoun) Number Case Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter

Subjunctive mood (9,795 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

translated to English with some variation of "whatever" or sometimes an indefinite pronoun. Spanish lo que sea, which is, by a literal interpretation, along

Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament (11,181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

regular expression for man in general. (2) It often serves as an indefinite pronoun ("one" or "someone"). (3) In certain circumstances it may be employed

Covert prestige (4,662 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

AAVE, referring to the marking of negation on the auxiliary verb and indefinite pronoun. An example would be "she ain't tellin' nobody", which would be "she

Adyghe grammar (9,710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

meanings: "someone", "one", "something", "somebody" and so on. The indefinite pronoun has the same forms in different grammatical cases like nouns have:

Epanadiplosis (2,605 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

figure close to chiasmus, as in this line by Victor Hugo, in which the indefinite pronoun “rien” is repeated symmetrically at the beginning and end of the proposition:

Tiqqun (8,853 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The man of the old regime is a specific type of Bloom. on A French indefinite pronoun, which may variously be translated as they, one, we, or people. The

Conditional preservation of the saints (53,576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

following [aphistēmi, fall away], "the faith" would seem to modify the indefinite pronoun "some" rather [than] the verb "fall away." If so, then the "some"

Il dio vagabondo (2,758 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Epic Greek word eys, which means "good" or "worthy", and the indefinite pronoun tis, leading to a name that roughly means "someone good". The characters

List of placeholder names by language (14,705 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

country. In Slovak, the most common placeholders are oné (originally an indefinite pronoun) with its variations like oný and onô or tento (originally a definite

Latin word order (10,658 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

position it is unemphatic, and the emphasis is on the name. The other indefinite pronoun, aliquī (the adjectival form of aliquis), similarly can either follow

Classical Quechua (13,870 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

-paŝ 'too' is added to an interrogative pronoun, the result is an indefinite pronoun: pi-paŝ 'somebody'. The enclitic may also be added to a noun modified

T–V distinction in the world's languages (19,276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

machen), by applying the passive voice (es wird gemacht), or using the indefinite pronoun man (man macht das). Formerly, the 2nd person plural Ihr ("ye") was