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If you know some Spanish, it's like "grammatical gender" in that language. ''La persona'' is feminine, even if the person you're talking about isn't necessarily female. | If you know some Spanish, it's like "grammatical gender" in that language. ''La persona'' is feminine, even if the person you're talking about isn't necessarily female. | ||
Toaq's pronouns work the same way: if you describe a person as {{t|sa sảo}}, the appropriate pronoun to refer to them later in the sentence is {{t|tá}}, because {{t|sảo}} is an adjective. It's not correct to use {{t|hó}}, because that's the pronoun for animate ''verbs'', not animate referents. | Toaq's pronouns work the same way: if you describe a person as {{t|sa sảo}} (“someone big”), the appropriate pronoun to refer to them later in the sentence is {{t|tá}} (“it<sub>adj.</sub>”), because {{t|sảo}} is an adjective. It's not correct to use {{t|hó}}, because that's the pronoun for animate ''verbs'', not animate referents. | ||
== Table of classes == | == Table of classes == | ||