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Language in which certain pronouns may sometimes be omitted
A pro-drop language (from "pronoun-dropping") is a language in which certain classes of pronouns may be omitted when they can be pragmatically or grammatically
Pro-drop_language
Indo-Aryan language of Sri Lanka
the sentence can be "dropped" in Sinhala if they can be inferred. In that sense, Sinhala can be called a "super pro-drop language", like Japanese. ex.
Sinhala_language
Official language of the country of Georgia
specific cases in many Indo-European languages such as German, Latin, or Russian. Georgian is a pro-drop language; both subject and object pronouns are
Georgian_language
South Slavic language
aspect, with a moderately complex tense system. Serbo-Croatian is a pro-drop language with flexible word order, subject–verb–object being the default. It
Serbo-Croatian
Parameter that determines whether the subject can be dropped from a sentence
The pro-drop parameter, or null subject parameter, is the parameter that determines whether or not a language is pro-drop. A positive setting of the parameter
Null_subject_parameter
Ethio-Semitic language
feminine (you m. sg., you f. sg., you pl., he, she, they). Amharic is a pro-drop language: neutral sentences in which no element is emphasized normally omit
Amharic
Standard variety of Serbo-Croatian
along the same case and number morphology as nouns. Serbian is a pro-drop language, meaning that pronouns may be omitted from a sentence when their meaning
Serbian_language
Cushitic language
according to the gender of the noun referred to. Oromo is a subject pro-drop language. That is, neutral sentences in which the subject is not emphasized
Oromo_language
Chadic language spoken in West Africa
noun subject. Thus Hausa is a non pro-drop language. Hausa verbs are classified into 7 grades: Unlike most languages, Hausa verbs are not conjugated for
Hausa_language
Grammar of the Latin language
nationality (vir Rōmānus "a Roman man") usually follow the noun. Latin is a pro-drop language; that is, pronouns in the subject are usually omitted except for emphasis
Latin_grammar
Class of language where a sentence subject is not required
controlled by the pro-drop parameter, which is either on or off for a particular language.[citation needed] Typically, null-subject languages express person
Null-subject_language
Northwest Caucasian language of Abkhazia
Зура́ба zurába Зура́ба zurába "Dear Zurab" (given name) Abkhaz is a pro-drop language. Pronouns are not inflected, and verbal agreement is generally sufficient
Abkhaz_language
West Slavic language
on word order, as English does), its word order is flexible. As a pro-drop language, in Czech an intransitive sentence can consist of only a verb; information
Czech_language
Topics referred to by the same term
game, an act of concealing sexual orientation Pronoun dropping (pro-drop) language, a language in which pronoun classes are omitted Preferred gender pronoun
Pronoun_(disambiguation)
after prepositions. Spanish is a pro-drop language with respect to subject pronouns, and, like many European languages, Spanish makes a T–V distinction
Personal_pronouns_in_Spanish
Grammar of the Hungarian language
prepositions. Hungarian is a pro-drop language and the subject does not have to be explicitly stated. Hungarian is a topic-prominent language and so its word order
Hungarian_grammar
Word or form that substitutes for another word
Deixis – Words requiring context to understand their meaning Pro-drop language – Language in which certain pronouns may sometimes be omitted Referent –
Pro-form
Linguistics concept
missing referent. Chinese is an example of a pro-drop language, where both subjects and objects can be dropped from the pronounced part of finite sentences
Empty_category
Kipchak Turkic language
grammatical structure of the language is similar to that of other West Kipchak varieties. Crimean Tatar is a pro-drop language with a generally SOV word
Crimean_Tatar_language
Austronesian language of Palau
pro-drop language with preverbal subject agreement morphemes, final pronominal subjects are deleted (or null). Example 1: Ak milenga er a ringo pro.
Palauan_language
Conjugation of verbs in the Spanish language
the three persons and two numbers. Note, however, that Spanish is a pro-drop language, and so it is the norm to omit subject pronouns when not needed for
Spanish_conjugation
Literary form of written Chinese
Classical Chinese can be described as a pro-drop language: its syntax often allows either subjects or objects to be dropped when their reference is understood
Classical_Chinese
Grammatical clause adding information to a primary clause
subject unless it is a non-finite dependent clause). However, in a pro-drop language the subject may be a zero pronoun: the pronoun may not be explicitly
Dependent_clause
Phenomenon in some spoken languages
pronouns, or abnormalities in how children with ASD experience the self. Pro-drop language, where pronouns may be omitted when they can be inferred from context
Pronoun_avoidance
referential reading. In languages that allow pro-drop (such as Spanish or Italian), the empty category pro (not to be confused with Big PRO) can fulfill the
Extended_projection_principle
Ethnic group
identified as Lao. The Lao language is a tonal, analytic, right-branching, pronoun pro-drop language of the Tai–Kadai language family. Most of the vocabulary
Lao_people
Form of Latin used in the Middle Ages
subject. Classical Latin is a pro-drop language whereas most Germanic (including standard English) and some Romance languages are not. Various changes occurred
Medieval_Latin
Algonquian language of the Midwestern US
inanimate stem -iik- 'house'. Since Miami–Illinois is a robustly pro-drop language, independent personal pronouns are used far less frequently than in
Miami–Illinois_language
Endangered Samoyedic language
the possessed (Helimski, 1998; Katzschmann, 2008). Nganasan is a pro-drop language; pronominal subjects are often omitted when the verb conjugation type
Nganasan_language
Pronoun that is associated with a particular grammatical person
some languages, subject or object pronouns can be dropped in certain situations (see Pro-drop language). In particular, in a null-subject language, it
Personal_pronoun
Honorifics in the Korean language and culture
coherent syntax without pronouns, effectively making Korean a so-called pro-drop language; thus, Koreans avoid using the second-person singular pronoun, especially
Korean_honorifics
Grammar of the Persian language
prepositions, not postpositions, and is mainly a head-initial language. Persian is a pro-drop language since its verbs have unambiguous personal suffixes and
Persian_grammar
Expression that gives its meaning to a pro-form in grammar
classes in a situation in which gender is typically unknown Pro-drop language – Language in which certain pronouns may sometimes be omitted Definitions
Antecedent_(grammar)
corresponding to Spanish a.) With regard to subject pronouns, Spanish is a pro-drop language, meaning that the verb phrase can often stand alone without the use
History of the Spanish language
History_of_the_Spanish_language
Processing of natural language by a computer
anaphora resolution, i.e., the extension of coreference resolution to pro-drop languages. Recognizing textual entailment Given two text fragments, determine
Natural_language_processing
Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia
is a pro-drop language, with required subject-marking on the verb. Zay has been greatly affected by contact it has had with the Gurage languages. This
Zay_language
Siouan language of the Midwest
indicated with the particle hnye, which follows the verb. Chiwere is a pro-drop language; once the subject of the sentence has been established, it can be
Chiwere_language
Eastern language of Bhutan
noun-adjective, however. Tshangla is a pro-drop language, with two otherwise notable features. First, multi-valent verbs drop objects even though they are not
Tshangla_language
Group of Highest Alemannic dialects
subject is. This phenomenon is known as pro-dropping, and is common among languages. Italian is a pro-drop language, and German is not, which means that
Walser_German
Grammar of the Telugu language
postpositions that follow the oblique stem. It is also head-final and a pro-drop language. The first treatise on Telugu grammar (Telugu: వ్యాకరణము, romanized: vyākaraṇamu)
Telugu_grammar
Type of sentence structure
afterthoughts occur after completing a sentence. Because it is a pro-drop language, no pronoun is used when a subject is dislocated, leading to an appearance
Dislocation_(syntax)
Grammar of the French language
mood); in other words, unlike other Romance languages, French is neither a null-subject nor a pro-drop language. Auxiliary verbs are combined with past participles
French_grammar
Siouan language of US Midwest
pronominal categories marked for person and clusivity. Ho-Chunk is a pro-drop language; pronouns are used very infrequently, and information on grammatical
Ho-Chunk_language
Austroasiatic languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent
unmarked subject/agents and marked objects or patients. In Juang, a pro-drop language, verbs can index both two core arguments in a transitive predicate
Munda_languages
Property of a predicate taking no arguments
no logical arguments, such as subject or object. Languages known as pro-drop or null-subject languages do not require clauses to have an overt subject
Avalency
Eastern Berber language of western Egypt
pronouns distinguish number and (in the singular only) gender. Siwi is a pro-drop language, so the use of independent forms is relatively limited; instead, agreement
Siwi_language
Word class in the Spanish language
after prepositions. Spanish is a pro-drop language with respect to subject pronouns. Like French and other languages with the T–V distinction, Spanish
Pronouns_in_Spanish
Linguistic description of the structure of ASL
c-command domain of the node which it is attached to. However, ASL is a pro-drop language, and when the manual sign that a non-manual grammatical marking is
American Sign Language grammar
American_Sign_Language_grammar
Franco-Provençal language spoken in two communities in the province of Foggia, Italy
choice of pronouns in a given phrase. This also makes Faetar a partial pro-drop language. Nagy, Naomi (2001). "Writing a Sociolinguistic Grammar of Faetar"
Faetar_language
of "gender". It has head-first order with few exceptions. It is a pro-drop language. Verbs may be used without explicitly specifying the subject or the
Swahili_grammar
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Drop_Dead
Tanoan language
category are the words meaning big, small, blind, and old. Jemez is a pro-drop language, meaning that independent pronouns are often absent in clauses. However
Jemez_language
Set of varieties of Spanish language
tendency to omit them when meaning is clear from the context (see pro-drop language). Thus, tú estás hablando instead of estás hablando. The tendency
Caribbean_Spanish
Lacking or omission of a "to be" verb, common in some languages and stylistic in others
descriptions of redirect targets used in some styles of English Pro-drop language – Language in which certain pronouns may sometimes be omitted "Grammar Deconstructed:
Zero_copula
Grammar of the Polish language
endings described under Verbs above. Polish is a pro-drop language; subject pronouns are frequently dropped. For example: ma kota (literally "has a cat")
Polish_grammar
Linguistic reconstruction
from their attached words in Gothic. Proto-Germanic may have been a pro-drop language since verb inflection generally distinguished person and number. However
Proto-Germanic_grammar
Endangered language of Bolivia
man is searching for platano for his wife (of another).’ Leco is a pro-drop language; this means that an explicit pronominal subject is not required, although
Leco_language
Grammatical rules of the modern-day Hebrew language
this topicalization can be used for emphasis. Hebrew is a partly pro-drop language. This means that subject pronouns are sometimes omitted when verb
Modern_Hebrew_grammar
Arawakan language spoken in Brazil
specific. Because these clitics are mandatory, Paresi is a strongly pro-drop language and subject pronouns are optional. (2) (natyo) (1SG) no-ka-nakaira-ene
Paresi_language
Endangered language spoken in Brazil
and masculine. Hein van der Voort (2000) categorizes Kwaza as a 'pro-drop' language because subject agreement is obligatory, while pronominal reference
Kwaza_language
Branch of the Romance languages
Occitano-Romance languages, most Gallo-Romance languages are subject-obligatory, but all other Romance languages are pro-drop languages. That is a late
Gallo-Romance_languages
Linguistic system of noun classification
syntactically required. They occur mostly in non-pro-drop languages, such as English (because in pro-drop languages the position of the argument can be left empty)
Grammatical_gender
Non-finite verb form in Ancient Greek
seated between these openings... In general, Greek is a pro drop language or a null-subject language: it does not have to express the (always in nominative
Infinitive_(Ancient_Greek)
Grammar of the Modern Greek language
του Νίκου το σπίτι 'Nick's house' – not Maria's house) Greek is a pro-drop language, and subjects are typically not overtly expressed whenever they are
Modern_Greek_grammar
Reduplication of "is" (to be) copula verbs
omission of the copula in some languages or styles Pro-drop languages such as Spanish, where subject pronouns are often dropped and implied in their copulas
Double_Is
Dialect of Ligurian spoken in Genoa
Relation General rules: Genoese dialect, similar to Italian is a pro-drop language. Genoese dialect has no tonic forms (forma tonica), therefore the
Genoese_dialect
Athabaskan language
It is a partially inflectional and partially agglutinative language, and a pro-drop language. 1. Dina man dineje moose izdlan. he/she-caught Dina dineje
Upper_Kuskokwim_language
Catalan grammar
Empeny-me → Empenye'm Conèixer-nos → Coneixe'ns Sigues-me → Sigue'm Pro-drop language Prepositional pronoun Clitic doubling "Gramàtica essencial de la llengua
Personal_pronouns_in_Catalan
Verbs in the Romance family of languages
of the phonetic erosion of verb endings, French has become a non-pro-drop language: each sentence always contains an explicit subject. The subjunctive
Romance_verbs
Subfamily of the Japonic languages
Ryukyuan languages are generally SOV, dependent-marking, modifier-head, nominative-accusative languages. They are also pro-drop languages. All of these
Ryukyuan_languages
Overview of noun phrases in Hungarian
subject and object, the pronouns are not usually used, i.e. it is a pro-drop language. The pronouns are used for contrast or emphasis or when there is no
Hungarian_noun_phrase
Dialect spoken by immigrants in Southern Spain
Pidgin Spanish is not a pro-drop language. Unlike in native Spanish, subject pronouns like tú 'you' and yo 'I' are rarely dropped. Haselow speculates that
Roquetas_Pidgin_Spanish
Grammatical feature of certain languages
Morphological typology Clitic doubling Incorporation Pro-drop language "The Georgian language: An outline grammatical summary". Archived from the original
Polypersonal_agreement
124th season of top-tier football in Belgium
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2026–27_Belgian_Pro_League
Dialect of Polish spoken in Poland
instead of -cie. Whereas Standard Polish is generally speaking a pro-drop language, pronouns might be used here more in the first person singular past
Eastern Greater Poland dialect
Eastern_Greater_Poland_dialect
Grammar of the Zulu language of Southern Africa
high-toned, so the resulting surface pattern is simply high-low. Zulu is a pro-drop language. As the verb already includes prefixes to indicate the subject and
Zulu_grammar
Wu Chinese variety spoken in Shanghai
Owing to its isolating grammatical structure, Shanghainese is not a pro-drop language. Younger speakers tend to pronounce this as wu. There is some degree
Shanghainese
Jola language of the Casamance region of Senegal
major language of Senegal. Bandial is classified as an agglutinative language. Various morphemes combine to form words. Bandial is a pro-drop language. Subject
Bandial_language
A large language model (LLM) is a type of machine learning model designed for natural language processing tasks such as language generation. LLMs are language
List_of_large_language_models
pro-drop language. Verbs may be used without explicitly specifying the subject or the object with substantives (nouns or pronouns). Bantu languages are
Sesotho_grammar
Grammar of the Hawaiian language
a possessive construction instead. Hawaiian, unlike English, is a pro-drop language, meaning pronouns may be omitted when the meaning is clear from context
Hawaiian_grammar
Grammar of the Semitic language
'he', 'she', 'they m.', 'they f.'). Like other Semitic languages, Tigrinya is a pro-drop language. That is, neutral sentences, in which no element is emphasized
Tigrinya_grammar
Type of pronoun
is identical: Ik zal het zelf doen. In Spanish, as in most other pro-drop languages, emphasis can be added simply by explicitly using the omissible pronoun
Intensive_pronoun
— 'the boy who goes'). Circassian is a pro-drop language, or "pronoun dropping" language, which is a language that may omit certain pronoun classes. The
Nouns_in_Circassian
2026 Android smartphones developed by Google
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Pixel_11_Pro
2025 operating system version
– the 2020 iMac, the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, the 2020 four-port 13-inch MacBook Pro, and the 2019 Mac Pro models – as its successor, macOS Golden Gate
MacOS_Tahoe
concord-like prefixes used in certain situations with verbs. Sesotho is a pro-drop language in that in most situations separate words (such as absolute pronouns)
Sotho_concords
objectival concord, it does not agree with its direct object (Sesotho is a pro-drop language; in the example both the verb and its direct object agree with the
Sotho_deficient_verbs
Verbs in the Spanish language
Region, a special form of the second person is used. Spanish is a pro-drop language, meaning that subject pronouns are often omitted. The grammatical
Spanish_verbs
Grammar of the Kabyle language
identical for all finite stems, with only the theme changing. Kabyle is a pro-drop language, where the affixes are sufficient to indicate the subject pronouns
Kabyle_grammar
2024 Android smartphones developed by Google
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Pixel_9
Israeli software company
allows WordPress users to create and edit websites with a responsive drag-and-drop technique similar to Wix, Metaconex, Readymag or Webflow. Elementor is available
Elementor
Grammar of the Adyghe language
and -кӀо "agent" (еджакӀо "student"). Adyghe is a pro-drop language, or "pronoun dropping" language, so subject and object pronouns are often omitted
Adyghe_grammar
Speech expressing things other people have said without quoting
pronouns, such as I, you, he, we, and the corresponding verb forms (in pro-drop languages the meaning of the pronoun may be conveyed solely by verb inflection)
Indirect_speech
Word that is only pronounceable in combination with another word
Australian Aboriginal languages: Many Australian languages use bound pronoun enclitics to mark inanimate arguments and, in many pro-drop languages like Warlpiri
Clitic
Proprietary file sharing between Apple devices
Pro: all models iPad Mini: all models AirDrop can be enabled unofficially on iPad (3rd generation) by jailbreaking the device and installing "AirDrop
AirDrop
Verb that has no determinate subject
rain. (British English) In some other languages (necessarily null subject languages and typically pro-drop languages), such as Portuguese, Spanish, Occitan
Impersonal_verb
Association football video game series
the rather different Wii version. Pro Evo Wii was released in March 2008. It was the first game in the series to drop the Winning Eleven name from its
Pro_Evolution_Soccer
Process of losing a language
overt and null subjects in pro-drop languages) but will not touch the narrow syntax. Phonological attrition is a form of language loss that affects the speaker's
Language_attrition
British spy novels
written five spinoff novellas/short stories; The List (2015), The Marylebone Drop (2018), The Catch (2020), The Last Dead Letter (2020) and Standing by the
Slough_House_(novel_series)
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