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  2. Personal pronoun - Wikipedia

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    In a language such as English, it is derogatory to use the inanimate pronoun it to refer to a person (except in some cases to a small child), and although it is traditional to use the masculine he to refer to a person of unspecified gender, the movement towards gender-neutral language requires that another method be found, such as saying he or she.

  3. T–V distinction - Wikipedia

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    tratar por tu, você; chamar de tu, você: tratar por senhor / senhora / senhorita; chamar de senhor / senhora / senhorita – o senhor / a senhora: Romanian: a tutui: a domni: tutuire: plural de politeţe: Russian: обращаться на "ты" быть на "ты" тыкать (tykat') (colloquial) обращаться на "вы" быть ...

  4. Spanish personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    Spanish is a pro-drop language with respect to subject pronouns, and, like many European languages, Spanish makes a T-V distinction in second person pronouns that has no equivalent in modern English. Object pronouns can be both clitic and non-clitic, with non-clitic forms carrying greater emphasis.

  5. English personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...

  6. English pronouns - Wikipedia

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    It is a meaning relation in which a phrase "stands in" for (expresses the same content as) another where the meaning is recoverable from the context. [4] In English, pronouns mostly function as pro-forms, but there are pronouns that are not pro-forms and pro-forms that are not pronouns. [5]: 239 Pronouns can be pro-forms for non-noun phrases.

  7. Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person ...

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    A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. [1] Some languages, such as Slavic, with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or all nouns have a value for this grammatical category.

  8. National personification - Wikipedia

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    The allegorical personification of Italy (Italia turrita; lit. ' Turreted Italy ').The allegorical representation with the towers draws its origins from ancient Rome.The origin of the turreted woman is linked to the figure of Cybele, a deity of fertility of Anatolian origin, in whose representations she wears a wall crown.

  9. Voseo - Wikipedia

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    In the Río de la Plata region, both the tú-conjugation and the voseo conjugation are found, the tú-form being more common. In this variety, some studies have shown a pragmatic difference between the tú -form and the vos -form, such that the vos form carries information about the speaker's belief state, and can be stigmatized.