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pronominal

/proh-nom-uh-nl/US // proʊˈnɒm ə nl //UK // (prəʊˈnɒmɪnəl) //

名词性,代词性,代词,语气词

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
    • : Heraldry. noting the coat of arms on a quartered escutcheon: customarily occupying the first quarter and being the original coat of arms of the paternal line.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Grammar. a pronominal word.

Examples

  • In the conference and prayer-room, the native teachers use the inclusive pronominal form of Father, altogether.

  • To give these expressions a verbal form, the substantive verb, with its pronominal modifications, must be superadded.

  • But this number is indiscriminate, and leaves the sense vague, until the pronominal suffixes are superadded.

  • We have already seen that Hebrew prefixes its pronominal elements in certain cases, suffixes them in others.

  • All the possessive pronominal forms except its and, in part, their and theirs, are also animate.