PronType: pronominal type
| Values: | Dem | Ind | Int | Prs | Tot |
In Naga-Suansu, PronType is a feature of pronouns (PRON), determiners (DET), and pronominal adverbs (ADV).
Prs: personal pronoun
The examples below illustrate Naga-Suansu independent personal pronouns. Dual forms are not attested in the corpus.
Examples
- a, hai, nahn, na, ba, bu “I, we, you (sing.), you (plur.), he/she/it, they”
Int: interrogative pronoun, determiner or adverb
Examples
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thuza “who”
- Thuza gali tha ma la khaliuh nan window di rakhie matam da? “Who didn’t wake up when the thieves smashed the window?”
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mwe “what/which”, mwethe “why”
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nahn mwe tha? “What did you see?”
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Bai nan rungthai mwethe da ba ashu re ngam ma ganan laia la re. “She explained why she couldn’t come yesterday.”
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gare “how” (in gare lehnda “which way”)
- Mercy nan leneo pha la di hai the di gare lehn da tharahn the laila re katamthai ganan laile. “Mercy is teaching the girls how to prepare this meat.”
Dem: demonstrative pronoun, determiner or adverb
Demonstratives are distinguished by Deixis.
Examples
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hadi, didi “this one, that one”
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hadi lua da! “Take this!”
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didi lua da! “Take that!”
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hai, tye “this, that”
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hai lairakdi lua da! “Take this book!”
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tye lairakdi lua da! “Take that book!”
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hano, dino “here, there”
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ba hano thathe rahn “She/He will work here.”
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ba dino thathe rahn “She/He will work there.”
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Tot: total (collective) pronoun or determiner
Examples
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mazohn “everybody / every”
- Jasonva baswua mazohn party nahn re rahn. “All Jason’s friends will come to the party.”
Ind: indefinite pronoun or determiner
Examples
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neo “someone”, chatha “others”
- Asza hai thungthe, he, phuirai ska, rate ragu chatha theza re thaiate. “Today we have seen monkeys, birds, a snake, and other animals.”
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za “some”
- ba jaa za runge. “She/He said some words.”
PronType in other languages: [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [el] [en] [es] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [gn] [gub] [gun] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [kpv] [ky] [la] [myu] [naq] [nmf] [pcm] [ps] [qpm] [sga] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj] [uz] [xav] [xcl] [xmf] [zh]