pronouns
pronouns is the plural of pronoun.
Meaning of pronoun
Noun
pronoun (plural pronouns)
- A part of speech that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase, which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective.
- The possessive conjunctive pronoun is always repeated before a substantive, and after a conjunction; as my brothers and sisters, mes frères & mes sœurs; […]1789, Jean Baptiste, A grammar of the French tongue, page 193
- Any of the third-person pronouns by which a person prefers to be referred to, typically reflecting their gender identity; often communicated as a subject–object pair.
- My pronouns are she/her. What are your pronouns?
Phrases with pronouns
- copy pronouns
- dummy pronouns
- donkey pronouns
- mirror pronouns
- object pronouns
- shadow pronouns
- Spivak pronouns
- subject pronouns
- emphatic pronouns
- nounself pronouns
- personal pronouns
- relative pronouns
18 more phrasesFewer phrases
- adjective pronouns
- intensive pronouns
- noun-self pronouns
- reflexive pronouns
- adjectival pronouns
- indefinite pronouns
- possessive pronouns
- reciprocal pronouns
- resumptive pronouns
- demonstrative pronouns
- interrogative pronouns
- perpendicular pronouns
- prepositional pronouns
- pronouns demonstrative
- what are your pronouns
- haberdasher of pronouns
- haberdashers of pronouns
- reflexive possessive pronouns
Questions about pronouns
- What is pronouns the plural of?
- Pronouns is the plural of pronoun.
Words near pronouns in the dictionary
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