personal pronoun

Noun

Meaning

a pronoun expressing a distinction of person

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Examples

Paul always mentions his own name in his letters and here mentioned Luke, but in the book of Acts Luke himself never mentions his own name, referring to himself more obliquely only by the personal pronoun "we" (as does Matthew in his book). Source: Internet

She instructs her speechwriters never to use the personal pronoun "I." Source: Internet

Problems arise when selecting a personal pronoun to refer to someone of unspecified or unknown gender (see also Mixed and indeterminate gender above). Source: Internet

The indefinite personal pronoun "one" is on in Occidental. Source: Internet

There is also an additional set of possessive determiners, distinct from the genitive case of the personal pronoun; this corresponds to the English difference between "my, your" and "mine, yours". Source: Internet

Verbs which govern the partitive case continue to do so in the passive, and where the object of the action is a personal pronoun, that goes into its special accusative form: minut unohdettiin "I was forgotten". Source: Internet

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