multilingual pronouns list:
shwetanarayan:
tristanisnotbae
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rabbitglitter:
hi! so the mods here at qla have decided that since not all our readers are native english speakers, it would be in everyone’s best interests to start a collection of gender-neutral pronouns across all languages. if you don’t see your language or pronouns on the list (within reason, for accessibility purposes we can’t include every english variant of a pronoun), please let us know and include conjugations if possible! thank you!
for further expansions on grammar you can check the posts in the pronoun project tag:)
arabic ( عربي )
هما (they, originally dual, can work as a neutral singular third person)
انتما (second person dual)
bulgarian (български език)
те/тях/техен/им (generally used for a group of people, could be used as singular as in “they”)
то/него/негово/му (means “it”, informal)
chinese (中文)
mandarin/普通话: 他 or 她 (tā) - only the pronunciation is gender-neutral unfortunately, the characters are gendered
cantonese/广州话: 佢 (keoi5/keúih) - them/him/her/it
它 - also tā, but means “it”. ask before using as it could be derogatory
牠 - ta1, used for non-human animals
add 們 (men) to either for plural, add 的 (de) to make it possessive
那个人 (simplified) 那個人 (traditional) (na4ge4ren2- that person) and 这个人 (simplified) 這個人 (traditional) (zhe4ge4ren2- this person)
czech/čeština
onikání, which was used in the past as gender-neutral pronoun when refering to someone of lesser status. it’s oni/je/jejich/se they/them/their/themself and the use is: Oni jsou moc milým člověkem. - They are a very nice person.
danish/dansk
de/dem/deres
hen/hen/hens
dutch/nederlands
zij/hen/hun
ze/hun/ze - (note: literal translation of they, but ze is often used as “she”)
english
they/them/theirs
ze/zem/zeirs
xe/xem/xeirs (xyr)
hir/hirs/hirself
spivak: e/em/eir
esperanto
ri
Ŝli - combination of he/she, generally used like “they” in english
estonian/eesti keel
tema/teda/tema (formal)
ta/teda/tema
farsi
او
finnish/suomen kieli
se/sen (means it, informal)
hän/hänen (formal)
french/le français
ol/mo - ex: ol s’appelle Bidule et c’est mo pote.
ille (referring to oneself), ceulle (referring to someone else)
eux (sometimes used as a subject-position instead of object-position)
georgian/kartuli/ქართული
ის / იმან / იმის (is / iman / imis) = they / them / their
german/deutsch
xier/xieser/dier
xier/xies/xiem/xien
sie_er
er_sie
sier
es
sie_r
si_er
x
sie*
er*
greek/ελληνικά
αυτοί / εκείνοι ( are these the ones that mean it?? let me know so i can take them down)
αυτ@, εκείν@ (singular) φίλ@ς (plural) - not pronounceable, good for writing though
hebrew/’lvrit/עִבְרִית
there aren’t actually any gender neutral pronouns in hebrew sadly. the first set is all male pronouns and the second one is all female. like the word ze (זה) is male for ‘it’ and it has a female form which is ‘zo’ (זו). atzmam (עצמם) is plural male (but it is used sometimes as neutral tbh). also the second set is only female pronouns for she, her, hers and herself
also about the plurals, you need to add either ם or ן to make these words plural either in a male or female form, like the plural words aren’t actual words it needs to be עצמם\שלהם\אותם\הם and it’s the male form you just need to replace it with ן to make it female but people use these as gender neutral pretty often because that’s the closest you would get
icelandic/islenska
hín/hín/híni/híns
hé/hé/hé/hés
það - equivalent of “it”, ask before using, could be derogatory
hán/hán/háni/háns - mix of binary pronouns
when referring to an individual of an unspecified gender, use viðkomandi instead of hann/hún
ilokano/Ti Pagsasao nga Iloko
isuna (singular they), na (singular their), kaniana/kenkuana (singular theirs), isuda (plural they), da (plural their), kaniada/kadakuwada (plural theirs)
indonesian/bahasa indonesia
dia (third person singular), mereka (third person plural)
irish/gaeilge
sibh/siad
italian
????
latvian/latviešu valoda/lettish
viņi/viņu/viņiem
lithuanian/lietuvių kalba
Jie/Jų/Jiems/Juos/Jais/Juose
malay/bahasa melayu/bahasa malaysia
dia
michif
wiya
norwegian/norsk
dem/dem/deres
hen/hen(henom)/hens(henoms)
hin/hin/hins
sir/sir/sirs
portuguese/lingua portuguesa/português
el@/del@
elx/delx
elæ/delæ
punjabi
all pronouns are neutral (he/she: “uha usa” or ਉਹ ਉਸ; him/her: “usa” or “usanū” which is ਉਸ or ਉਸਨੂੰ; his/hers: “usadā” or ਉਸਦਾ). also, the pronouns “he” & “she” in english both translate to “vah” (वह) in hindi. however, the rest of the pronouns are gendered. verbs are also generally gendered.
russian/ру́сский язы́к
ох/ех/ех/ем/их/ниx
slovak/slovenský jazyk
oni/nich/im/ich/nimi
slovenian/slovenščina
oni/z njimi/njim (they/with them/to them). Now if you want to say: I want to help them - you don’t use ‘njim’ but ‘jim’. (Želim jim pomagati; Pomagati jim želim.)
spanish/español/castilano/castellano
Pronouns that can be written and pronounced:
Ella/la/-a (binary feminine): “Ella es la niña linda”
Él/el/-o (binary masculine): “Él es el niño lindo”
Elle/le/-e (neutral): “Elle es le niñe linde”
Ello/lo/-o (neutral, similarly to the english ‘it’ can be very offensive so please be careful and don’t use it unless you are told to do so): “Ello es lo niño lindo”
Elli/li/-i (neutral, cacophonic and uncommon): “Elli es li niñi lindi”
Ellu/lu/-u (neutral, cacophonic and uncommon): “Ellu es lu niñu lindu”
Pronouns that can be written but not pronounced:
Ellx/lx/-x: “Ellx es lx chicx lindx” (I don’t know who told you otherwise, but this can be used by both poc and white folks)
Ell*/l*/-*: “Ell* es l* niñ* lind*”
Ell@/l@/-@: “Ell@ es l@ niñ@ lind@”
Ell_/l_/-_: “Ell_ es l_ niñ_ lind_”
Ellæ/læ/-æ: “Ellæ es læ niñæ lindæ”
swedish/svenska
hen/hen(henom)/hens(henoms) - variations are in parentheses, gender-neutral third person personal pronouns
den/den/dens (dess) (means ‘it’)
de/dem (dom)/deras
tagalog
Singular/Plural siya/sila (they) niya/nila (them/their) (sa) kanya/(sa) kanila (theirs/preposition them)
turkish/türkçe
o/onlar
welsh/cymraeg/y gymraeg
nhw/nhw/eu
THERE!!! ARE!!! GENDER!!! NEUTRAL!!! PRONOUNS!!! IN!!! SPANISH!!! i didn’t know this omg
Tamil’s honorific plural/respectful pronoun (avar) is gender neutral in principle (that kinda respect mostlly goes to cis men in practice, but hey let’s claim it for us :D)