Explore Pronominal through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like phrase. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pronominal in a sentence
Pronominal meaning
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or functioning as a pronoun.
Synonyms of Pronominal
Using Pronominal
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, pertaining to, resembling, or functioning as a pronoun.
- Useful related words include: function word, closed-class word, pronominal phrase, phrase.
- In the example corpus, pronominal often appears in combinations such as: the pronominal, pronominal state, pronominal system.
Context around Pronominal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pronominal
- In this selection, "pronominal" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, grade, non, example, system, suffix and objects stand out and add context to how "pronominal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a pronominal is also and and the pronominal prefix wa. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pronominal" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pronominal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pronominal attributive ('my', 'this') might follow the noun. (8 words)
The pronominal state grade is used before a pronominal direct object enclitic. (12 words)
A pronominal is also a word or phrase that acts as a pronoun. (13 words)
Suffix conjugations take suffixes indicating the person, number and gender of the subject, which bear some resemblance to the pronominal suffixes used to indicate direct objects on verbs ("I saw him") and possession on nouns ("his dog"). (37 words)
Compare the following forms (Lambdin 1983:39): Absolute state grade Nominal state grade Pronominal state grade For most transitive verbs, both absolute and nominal state grade verbs are available for non-pronominal objects. (33 words)
In this example, the verbal prefix a- and the pronominal prefix wa- are in concordance with the noun prefix m-: they all express class 1 despite of their different forms. (30 words)
Example sentences (16)
Compare the following forms (Lambdin 1983:39): Absolute state grade Nominal state grade Pronominal state grade For most transitive verbs, both absolute and nominal state grade verbs are available for non-pronominal objects.
The pronominal state grade is used before a pronominal direct object enclitic.
Another result is that the pronominal system is complex and full of honorific variations, just a few of which are shown in the table below.
A pronominal is also a word or phrase that acts as a pronoun.
For example, some adverbial expressions placed at the beginning of a sentence trigger inversion of pronominal subjects: Peut-être est-elle partie (Maybe she has left).
In this context, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns (such as himself and each other) are referred to as anaphors (in a specialized restricted sense) rather than as pronominal elements.
In this example, the verbal prefix a- and the pronominal prefix wa- are in concordance with the noun prefix m-: they all express class 1 despite of their different forms.
Languages with gender distinction generally have fewer cases of ambiguity concerning for example pronominal reference.
Pronominal attributive ('my', 'this') might follow the noun.
Suffix conjugations take suffixes indicating the person, number and gender of the subject, which bear some resemblance to the pronominal suffixes used to indicate direct objects on verbs ("I saw him") and possession on nouns ("his dog").
The infinitive construct is used after prepositions and is inflected with pronominal endings to indicate its subject or object: bikhtōbh hassōphēr "when the scribe wrote", ahare lekhtō "after his going".
These differences characterize the "pronominal" declension, and a few special adjectives are also declined according to this pattern.
The use of the pronoun vos with the verb forms of tú (vos piensas) is called "pronominal voseo".
The venitive is not a mood in the strictest sense, being a development of the 1st person dative pronominal suffix -am/-m/-nim.
Very closely related nouns can be drawn into a closer grammatical relationship by the addition of a pronominal suffix.
While the first and second person singular pronouns are cognate with forms in other varieties of Chinese, the rest of the pronominal system is a Mandarin innovation (e.
Common combinations with pronominal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the pronominal 6×
- pronominal state 2×
- pronominal system 2×
- of pronominal 2×
- pronominal suffix 2×