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* '''对象 (dui xiang).''' Term that means one's romantic partner. It is gender neutral. | * '''对象 (dui xiang).''' Term that means one's romantic partner. It is gender neutral. | ||
* '''配偶 (pei ou).''' Term that means one's partner in marriage. It is gender neutral. | * '''配偶 (pei ou).''' Term that means one's partner in marriage. It is gender neutral. | ||
== Cornish == | |||
Cornish, like all other modern Celtic languages, has two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine. Although the way that gender-neutral nouns and non-binary people are referred to in terms of grammatical gender, and the impact that those nouns would have on adjectives, is yet to be determined, Cornish has a complete set of non-binary 3rd person singular pronouns: | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+Paradigm of the Cornish non-binary pronoun | |||
!Purpose | |||
!Word or element in Cornish | |||
!Examples | |||
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|Personal pronoun | |||
|'''hynn''', '''hydn''', '''hedn''' | |||
|'''Hynn''' a wra dos avorow. | |||
''They will come tomorrow.'' | |||
|- | |||
|Possessive adjective | |||
|'''ho<sup>2</sup>''' (causes soft mutation) | |||
|My a wra '''ho''' weles avorow. | |||
''I will see them tomorrow''. | |||
|- | |||
|Infixed pronoun | |||
|'''<nowiki/>'gh'''<sup>(2/4 if desired by speakers to improve the sound of the sentence)</sup> | |||
|My a'''<nowiki/>'gh''' gwel/wel/kwel avorow. | |||
''I will see them tomorrow.'' | |||
|- | |||
|Emphatic pronoun | |||
|'''hehynn''', '''ehynn''', '''hyhynn''', etc. | |||
|Ny wra saw '''hehynn''' dos avorow. | |||
''Only <u>they</u> will come tomorrow''. | |||
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|Conjugated prepositions | |||
|'''-m''' at the end of the masculine form | |||
|My a wra mos '''dhodhom''' avorow. | |||
''I will go to them tomorrow.'' | |||
Ottoma lyver skrifys '''gansom'''. | |||
''Here is a book written by them.'' | |||
Ny aswonnav travyth '''anodhom'''. | |||
''I don't know anything about them.'' | |||
etc. | |||
|} | |||
==Dutch== | ==Dutch== | ||