17_Demonstrative Noun

  Words: hierdie huis
  Gloss: this house
  Translation: this house
  Contributor: Theresa Biberauer

  Words: daardie mense
  Gloss: there.the people
  Translation: those people
  Comment: Afrikaans has composite demonstratives composed of a deictic locative (distal daar - "there" - and proximal hier - "here) plus the definite article (die - "the"). This make-up means that there is no singular vs plural distinction ("that" vs "those", etc.).
  Contributor: Theresa Biberauer

  Words: hierdie antwoord
  Gloss: here.the answer
  Translation: this answer
  Contributor: Theresa Biberauer

  Words: kjo vajzë
  Gloss: this girl
  Translation: this girl
  Contributor: Dalina Kallulli

  Words: ya bet
  Gloss: that house
  Translation: 'that house'
  Contributor: Girma Demeke

  Words: kaì hoûtos ho nómos eklé:the: seisáchtheia
  Gloss: and this-NOM the-NOM law-NOM was-called shaking-off-of-burdens-NOM
  Translation: and this law was called "shaking-off burdens"
  Comment: Greek Text: καὶ οὗτος ὁ νόμος ἐκλήθη σεισάχθεια: (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 1.45.6)
  Contributor: Eric Besson

  Words: Ahmed qaraa hatha al-ketab
  Gloss: Ahmed read.PST this DET-book
  Translation: Ahmed read this book
  Contributor: Shaikha Saeed

  Words: o cè ka jan
  Gloss: That man is tall
  Translation: That man is tall
  Comment: frmo TNBG 107
  Contributor: Bryan Villa

  Words: bíní bikaat
  Gloss: AGR.DEM.PROX 8books
  Translation: These books (here)
  Contributor: Paul Roger Bassong

  Words: Ò töi chesctu libru ier
  Gloss: have.AUX.PRS.1 buy.PTCP this book yesterday
  Translation: I bought this book yesterday.
  Contributor: Andrea Cattaneo

  Words: oi meye-ta
  Gloss: that girl-CLF
  Translation: that girl
  Contributor: Satarupa Das

  Words: Essa cadeira
  Gloss: This.F.SG chair.F.SG
  Translation: This chair
  Contributor: Bruna Moreira

  Words: tova dete
  Gloss: DEM.N.SG child.N
  Translation: this child
  Contributor: Ljuba Veselinova

  Words: di hsei:
  Gloss: this medicine
  Translation: this medicine
  Contributor: Timothy Ho

  Words: ten-hle chap
  Gloss: dem-reinforcer guy
  Translation: this guy here
  Contributor: Pavel Caha

  Words: ten chlap
  Gloss: dem guy
  Translation: the guy
  Contributor: Pavel Caha

  Words: Yuya mutu; yuno mkpwazangu
  Gloss: CL1.DEM CL1.person; CL1.DEM CL1.my_wife
  Translation: That person; that wife of mine (lit. that my wife)
  Comment: Digo has 4 demonstrative 'series' with variant forms of three of these, giving up to 9 demonstratives per noun class.
  Contributor: Steve Nicolle

  Words: ači χɐʣarɐ
  Gloss: this house
  Translation: this house
  Contributor: David Erschler

  Words: Dit huis is mooier dan die twee huizen
  Gloss: This house is beautiful.er than those two houses
  Translation: This house is more beautiful than those two houses
  Contributor: Hilda Koopman

  Words: Dit huis is mooier dan die twee huizen
  Gloss: This house is beautiful.er than those two houses
  Translation: This house is more beautiful than those two houses
  Contributor: Hilda Koopman

  Words: es girk-a
  Gloss: this book.DEF
  Translation: this book
  Contributor: Arwa Rangwala

  Words: Cumprimentei o professor.
  Gloss: greet.PST.1SG the.M professor
  Translation: I greeted the professor.
  Contributor: Salvador Mascarenhas

  Words: kana bã’a
  Gloss: this disease
  Translation: this disease
  Contributor: Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

  Words: nɛreba sɛba
  Gloss: people those
  Translation: those people
  Contributor: Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

  Words: cette table
  Gloss: DEM-F table
  Translation: this table
  Contributor: Hannah Kim

  Words: nɛkɛ be-aŋ lɛ
  Gloss: this time-LOC DEF
  Translation: during this time
  Comment: this demonstrative rarely if ever occurs without another demonstrative or a definite marker following the noun
  Contributor: Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

  Words: afto to koritsi
  Gloss: this the girl
  Translation: this girl
  Comment: Demonstratives require the presence of the definite determiner.
  Contributor: Arhonto Terzi

  Words: una arnaq
  Gloss: that woman
  Translation: ‘that female person’
  Contributor: Stephen Mayeaux

  Words: wannán kwālī
  Gloss: this.M (speaker proximal) carton.M
  Translation: this carton
  Contributor: Michael A. Estrada

  Words: *hu henif ze degel
  Gloss: he hoist-PST this flag
  Translation: He hoisted this flag
  Contributor: Ur Shlonsky

  Comment: There are demonstrative pronouns in Hixkaryana (Derbyshire 1985:p. 7) but no demonstratives that co-occur with a noun (p. 26).
  Contributor: Laura Kalin

  Words: Ez-ek a kalap-ok rondá-k.
  Gloss: this-PL[NOM] the hat-PL[NOM] ugly-PL
  Translation: `These hats are ugly'
  Comment: An alternative (archaic?) version is "Ez-en kalap-ok rondá-k", which has a different demonstrative and no article.
  Contributor: Anna Szabolcsi

  Words: Þessi bók
  Gloss: This.NOM.SG.F book.NOM.SG.F
  Translation: This book
  Comment: From Thráinsson (2007:11)
  Contributor: Jim Wood

  Words: daytoy kotse
  Gloss: this car
  Translation: this car
  Contributor: Jeremy Rafal

  Words: kono booru
  Gloss: this ball
  Translation: this ball
  Contributor: Ken Hiraiwa

  Words: huyu m-toto
  Gloss: child cls2-child
  Translation: this child
  Contributor: Aggrey Wasike

  Words: i chayk
  Gloss: this book
  Translation: this book
  Contributor: Chung-hye Han

  Words: ena alem// enda alem// ele ayioni //ene wueji// ku-lo ayiok
  Gloss: this knife//that knife// this boy.sg//this place//these boys
  Translation: this knife//this boy.sg//this place//these boys
  Comment: demonstratives seem to be composed of an article like element (sg/plural), encoding gender (n(fem, l ms), followed by Demonstrative root (n)a, (n)da, (n)e.
  Contributor: Hilda Koopman

  Words: io trano io
  Gloss: DEM house DEM
  Translation: that house
  Comment: Each of the seven demonstratives in Malagasy must frame the noun phrase it is qualifying. As seen here, the demonstrative 'ity' appears both before the noun phrase and after. Very occasionally, the second demonstrative is absent.
  Contributor: Ed Keenan and Laura Kalin

  Words: *ļeo e=ar jek kaņ wa.
  Gloss: the.man 3SG.AGR=PST make those boat
  Translation: The man made those boats.
  Contributor: Heather Willson Sturman

  Words: jʉ̄n mɛ́n lī
  Gloss: this child lī
  Translation: this child
  Comment: In this case we will have a contrastive reading which is no longer a neutral context
  Contributor: KEUPDJIO HERMANN SIDOINE

  Words: uut desen prisoen
  Gloss: out of this.ACC.M prison
  Translation: out of this prison
  Contributor: Gertjan Postma

  Words: nákǝn mbǝrgu
  Gloss: this.M.SG ram.M.SG
  Translation: 'this ram'
  Comment: In their attributive use, demonstratives precede the noun they modify and agree in gender, number and distance. The reference grammar used lists that there are instances in which the dem follows the head noun, these instances most often being in temporal expressions. It also lists that there are cases where the dem follows the noun for rhetorical purposes.
  Contributor: Michael A. Estrada

  Words: táka wún
  Gloss: that.F.SG girl.F.SG
  Translation: 'that girl'
  Contributor: Michael A. Estrada

  Words: làʔà bí.gàː
  Gloss: that child+cm(ga)+spec
  Translation: 'that child (over there)' (9).
  Comment: All setting and examples come from the database from a two quarter fieldmethods class at UCLA in 1998. (Albro, 1998)
  Contributor: Hannah Kim

  Words: *Dzuru eci
  Gloss: red yam
  Translation: red yam
  Contributor: Jason Kandybowicz

  Words: *Ga eci
  Gloss: that yam
  Translation: that yam
  Contributor: Jason Kandybowicz

  Words: daa peeghla kitaab-úna khe lwal-i
  Gloss: DEM.F.DIR.SG girl.F.DIR.SG book.M-DIR.PL good.M.DIR.PL read-3SG
  Translation: That girl reads books well.
  Comment: Tegey and Robson 1996: 88.
  Contributor: Taylor Roberts

  Words: ta kobieta
  Gloss: dem-nom.s.f woman-nom.s.f
  Translation: this woman
  Contributor: Barbara Tomaszewicz

  Words: tamta kobieta
  Gloss: distal.dem-nom.s.f woman-nom.s.f
  Translation: that woman (over there)
  Contributor: Barbara Tomaszewicz

  Words: acest copac
  Gloss: this.M.SG tree.M.SG
  Translation: this tree
  Contributor: Oana Savescu

  Words: ètot restoran
  Gloss: this.NOM.M.SG restaurant.NOM.M.SG
  Translation: this restaurant
  Contributor: Stephanie Harves

  Words: ji pam run
  Gloss: this bag be.full
  Translation: This bag is full.
  Comment: This order is possible when the demonstrative "ji" is focussed.
  Contributor: Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare

  Words: ji pam pa kamkeri
  Gloss: this bag is rare
  Translation: This bag is rare.
  Comment: This order is possible when the demonstrative "ji" is focussed.
  Contributor: Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare

  Words: Visitamos esas ciudades
  Gloss: visit.PST.1PL that.F.PL city.PL
  Translation: We visited those cities
  Contributor: Violeta Vazquez-Rojas

  Words: den här/denna grisen
  Gloss: this here/this pig.DEF
  Translation: this pig
  Comment: There is dialectal difference between the two demonstratives.
  Contributor: fredrik heinat

  Words: de här/dessa grisarna
  Gloss: these here/these pigs.DEF
  Translation: these pigs
  Comment: There is dialectal difference between the two demonstratives.
  Contributor: fredrik heinat

  Words: ito-ng babae
  Gloss: this-Lk woman
  Translation: this woman
  Contributor: Edith Aldridge

  Words: i ai chit ki pit
  Gloss: he love DEM CLF pen
  Translation: He loves this pen.
  Contributor: Arthur Wang

  Words: indé=ksï warhiiti-cha jarha-h-ti cosina
  Gloss: DEM=3PL.SUBJ woman-PL be-PFV-3 kitchen
  Translation: 'Those women are in the kitchen'
  Contributor: Violeta Vazquez-Rojas

  Words: tito poen-kekan-cako
  Gloss: this print-foot-hermit.crab
  Translation: this hermit crab's footprint
  Contributor: Claire Bowern

  Words: yaa lingít
  Gloss: DEM.PROX person
  Translation: this person
  Contributor: James Crippen

  Words: a. ódzú mwana b. ává vana
  Gloss: a. this child b. these children
  Translation: a. THIS child b. THESE children
  Comment: Constrative focus (it means it is this child, and not any other child)
  Contributor: Edmond Biloa

  Words: aye yĕndze
  Gloss: this house
  Translation: THIS house
  Comment: only with coontrastive focus
  Contributor: Edmond Biloa

  Words: şu kapı
  Gloss: that door
  Translation: that door
  Contributor: Volkan Tümer

  Words: ol ulus
  Gloss: this people
  Translation: these people
  Contributor: Brian Hsu

  Words: cej rik
  Gloss: this year
  Translation: this year
  Contributor: Roksolana Mykhaylyk

  Words: mEnI kO
  Gloss: this.NI man
  Translation: This man
  Comment: Dem prenominally are followed by NI; nI also follows possessors (DP ni N); postnominal demonstratives [NP mE]
  Contributor: Hilda Koopman

  Words: sta jårna
  Translation: this winter
  Contributor: Zvjezdana Vrzic

  Words: dien-en sjaal
  Gloss: that-masc-sg scarf
  Translation: 'that scarf'
  Contributor: Liliane Haegeman

  Words: Oto di dozik-e froj
  Gloss: here the.F this-F woman
  Translation: "this woman"
  Contributor: Shannon Mooney

  Words: Lo m-fana mu-de.
  Gloss: this.DEM.AGR 1-boy 1-tall
  Translation: 'This boy is tall.'
  Contributor: Esther Park