feminine pronoun

collocation in English

meaningsoffeminineandpronoun

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feminine
adjective
uk
/ˈfem.ɪ.nɪn/us
/ˈfem.ə.nɪn/
having characteristics that are traditionally thought to be typical of or suitable for ...
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pronoun
noun
uk
/ˈprəʊ.naʊn/us
/ˈproʊ.naʊn/
a word that is used instead of a noun or a ...
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(Definition offeminineandpronounfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffeminine pronoun

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Most case errors occurred with thefemininepronoun.
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Five of the children in this study who produced at least five attempts at the nominativefemininepronoun, replaced she with her 100 % of the time.
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He reserves the most loving adjectives for the planes themselves, though, to the relief of this reviewer, they are not then graced with thefemininepronoun.
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Murison's first example (with the syntactic dissociation that/his) and the second one (with afemininepronoun: that + her) provide ample proof of the non-existence of such a genitive.
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In sentence number 2, the doctor is a woman, so the noun is referred back with afemininepronoun.
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The use of masculine pronouns could be avoided without loss of simplicity by using feminine pronouns instead.
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In the south, the feminine pronouns are used for feminine nouns and the masculine pronouns are used for masculine nouns.
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Speakers in the north will use feminine pronouns for female people, and the masculine pronouns for male people and for common-gender (masculine or feminine) nouns.
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Customarily, feminine pronouns are used when referring to two genders or to a person or people of an unknown gender.
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The masculine and feminine pronouns are used more often in the pronoun form, but the adverbial form may be used occasionally as well.
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These are: "-e" or for masculine pronouns, "-a" for feminine pronouns and "-o" for neuter pronouns.
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She tells him that everyone should be able to be with who they love, carefully avoiding the use of either masculine or feminine pronouns.
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Those who knew him alternately used masculine and feminine pronouns.
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Also in the same glossary, he defined theology with nearly identical words, changing the feminine pronouns with masculine pronouns appropriately.
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Being swish includes sashaying and the use of limp wrists, falsetto voices, feminine pronouns, and superlativesbasically, everything up to the other side of camp, or drag.
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