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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- pronoun ['prəunaun]
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noun
[c]
代词
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1.
noun
[c]
代词
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- pronoun [ 'pronaυn] [ 'praunaun]
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1.
noun
[grammar]
代（名）词（如I，you，them it，ours，who，which，myself，anybody等）
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1.
noun
[grammar]
代（名）词（如I，you，them it，ours，who，which，myself，anybody等）
Collins English-English Dictionary
- pronoun ['prəυ,naυn]
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n
one of a class of words that serves to replace a noun phrase that has already been or is about to be mentioned in the sentence or context pron
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n
[Etymology]
C16: from Latin pr
o no men, frompro- 1 + no men noun
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n
one of a class of words that serves to replace a noun phrase that has already been or is about to be mentioned in the sentence or context pron
Examples
- relative pronoun
- 关系代词 → relative
- "This" is a demonstrative pronoun.
- “This”是指示代词。 → demonstrative
- Each other is a reciprocal pronoun.
- each other是个相互代词。 → reciprocal
- in French the pronoun ``vous'' is formal, while ``tu'' is informal → formal
- In French the pronoun ``tu'' is informal, while ``vous'' is formal → informal
- pronoun → pro-
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