adjectival pronoun

noun

A pronoun that accompanies a noun, such as our in English.

Similar
pronounpronoun adjective
Opposite
substantival pronoun

Meanings

nounadjectival pronoun (plural adjectival pronouns)

plural adjectival pronouns

  1. grammarA pronoun that accompanies a noun, such as our in English.

    Meus and tuus are called adjectival pronouns […]

    2014, N. M. Gwynne, Gwynne's Latin: The Ultimate Introduction to Latin Including the Latin in Everyday English, Random House (ebook without page numbers; the italic words were originally bold)
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    This section will present the declensions of the demonstrative, interrogative/relative, and possessive categories. These pronouns can be termed adjectival on the basis of the fact that they substitute for adjectives. However, most adjectival pronouns have a declension that differs from that of adjectives in an essential property: […]

    2002, Ronald F. Feldstein, Steven L. Franks, Polish, Lincom Europa, page 68

    Synonyms: pronoun, pronoun adjective

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA pronoun that accompanies a noun, such as our in English.

Similar
pronounpronoun adjective
Opposite
substantival pronoun

Translations

Esperanto adjektiva pronomo
  • adjektiva pronomopronoun
French pronom adjectif
  • pronom adjectifpronoun
German adjektivisches Pronomen, Adjektivpronomen
  • adjektivisches Pronomenpronoun
  • Adjektivpronomenpronoun
Russian адъекти́вное местоиме́ние
  • адъекти́вное местоиме́ние (adʺjektívnoje mestoiménije)pronoun
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