pronoun, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

pronoun (pronouns plural )A pronoun is a word that you use to refer to someone or something when you do not need to use a noun, often because the person or thing has been mentioned earlier. Examples are `it', `she', `something', and `myself'. n-count
→ indefinite pronoun
→ personal pronoun
→ reflexive pronoun
→ relative pronoun

indefinite pronoun (indefinite pronouns plural )An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun such as `someone', `anything', or `nobody', which you use to refer in a general way to a person or thing. n-count

personal pronoun (personal pronouns plural )A personal pronoun is a pronoun such as `I', `you', `she', or `they' which is used to refer to the speaker or the person spoken to, or to a person or thing whose identity is clear, usually because they have already been mentioned. n-count

possessive pronoun (possessive pronouns plural )A possessive pronoun is a pronoun such as `mine', `yours', or `theirs' which is used to refer to the thing of a particular kind that belongs to someone, as in `Can I borrow your pen? I've lost mine.' n-count

reflexive pronoun (reflexive pronouns plural )A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun such as `myself' which refers back to the subject of a sentence or clause. For example, in the sentence `He made himself a cup of tea', the reflexive pronoun `himself' refers back to `he'. n-count

relative pronoun (relative pronouns plural )A relative pronoun is a word such as `who', `that', or `which' that is used to introduce a relative clause. `Whose', `when', `where', and `why' are generally called relative pronouns, though they are actually adverbs. n-count