"ri" meaning in Esperanto

See ri in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Pronoun

IPA: /ri/ Forms: rin [accusative], ria [possessive]
Rhymes: -i Head templates: {{head|eo|pronoun|accusative|rin|possessive|ria}} ri (accusative rin, possessive ria)
  1. (gender-neutral, nonstandard) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun. Wikipedia link: ri (pronoun) Tags: gender-neutral, nonstandard Synonyms (non standard): ŝli [neologism] Derived forms: riismo (english: ri-ism)
    Sense id: en-ri-eo-pron-51bMtDf3 Categories (other): Esperanto entries with incorrect language header, Esperanto pronouns, Pages with 33 entries, Pages with entries Related terms: mi, min, mia, ni, nin, nia, vi, vin, via, ci, cin, cia, li, lin, lia, iliiŝi3, iliniŝin3, iliaiŝia3, ŝi, ŝin, ŝia, ĝi, ĝin, ĝia, riŝli, rinŝlin, riaŝlia, si, sin, sia, oni, onin, onia

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rin",
      "tags": [
        "accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ria",
      "tags": [
        "possessive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eo",
        "2": "pronoun",
        "3": "accusative",
        "4": "rin",
        "5": "possessive",
        "6": "ria"
      },
      "expansion": "ri (accusative rin, possessive ria)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ri"
  ],
  "lang": "Esperanto",
  "lang_code": "eo",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Esperanto entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Esperanto pronouns",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 33 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "ri-ism",
          "word": "riismo"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              25,
              29
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              17,
              19
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Why is it important, who they are?",
          "ref": "1997, Liland Brajant ROS', “Pri Sennaciistaj postulatoj”, in soc.culture.esperanto (Usenet):",
          "text": "Kial gravas, kiu ri estas?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              66,
              70
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              56,
              58
            ]
          ],
          "english": "A neighbor working in the same workplace / In the beautiful house they don't paint anymore",
          "ref": "2006, “Maldormemo mia”, in Eksenlime, performed by La Perdita Generacio:",
          "text": "Najbaro laboranta en la sama laborejo / En la bela domo ri ne pentras plu",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              4
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              2
            ]
          ],
          "english": "They were the most patient and intelligent dog I had ever met.",
          "ref": "2014, Roland Bonkorpa, “Fiinsulo”, in Beletra Almanako, number 21, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:",
          "text": "Ri estis la plej pacienca kaj inteligenta hundo, kiun mi iam renkontis.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun."
      ],
      "id": "en-ri-eo-pron-51bMtDf3",
      "links": [
        [
          "gender-neutral",
          "gender-neutral#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(gender-neutral, nonstandard) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "mi"
        },
        {
          "word": "min"
        },
        {
          "word": "mia"
        },
        {
          "word": "ni"
        },
        {
          "word": "nin"
        },
        {
          "word": "nia"
        },
        {
          "word": "vi"
        },
        {
          "word": "vin"
        },
        {
          "word": "via"
        },
        {
          "word": "ci"
        },
        {
          "word": "cin"
        },
        {
          "word": "cia"
        },
        {
          "word": "li"
        },
        {
          "word": "lin"
        },
        {
          "word": "lia"
        },
        {
          "word": "iliiŝi3"
        },
        {
          "word": "iliniŝin3"
        },
        {
          "word": "iliaiŝia3"
        },
        {
          "word": "ŝi"
        },
        {
          "word": "ŝin"
        },
        {
          "word": "ŝia"
        },
        {
          "word": "ĝi"
        },
        {
          "word": "ĝin"
        },
        {
          "word": "ĝia"
        },
        {
          "word": "riŝli"
        },
        {
          "word": "rinŝlin"
        },
        {
          "word": "riaŝlia"
        },
        {
          "word": "si"
        },
        {
          "word": "sin"
        },
        {
          "word": "sia"
        },
        {
          "word": "oni"
        },
        {
          "word": "onin"
        },
        {
          "word": "onia"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "non standard",
          "tags": [
            "neologism"
          ],
          "word": "ŝli"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gender-neutral",
        "nonstandard"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "ri (pronoun)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ri/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-i"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ri"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "ri-ism",
      "word": "riismo"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rin",
      "tags": [
        "accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ria",
      "tags": [
        "possessive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eo",
        "2": "pronoun",
        "3": "accusative",
        "4": "rin",
        "5": "possessive",
        "6": "ria"
      },
      "expansion": "ri (accusative rin, possessive ria)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ri"
  ],
  "lang": "Esperanto",
  "lang_code": "eo",
  "pos": "pron",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mi"
    },
    {
      "word": "min"
    },
    {
      "word": "mia"
    },
    {
      "word": "ni"
    },
    {
      "word": "nin"
    },
    {
      "word": "nia"
    },
    {
      "word": "vi"
    },
    {
      "word": "vin"
    },
    {
      "word": "via"
    },
    {
      "word": "ci"
    },
    {
      "word": "cin"
    },
    {
      "word": "cia"
    },
    {
      "word": "li"
    },
    {
      "word": "lin"
    },
    {
      "word": "lia"
    },
    {
      "word": "iliiŝi3"
    },
    {
      "word": "iliniŝin3"
    },
    {
      "word": "iliaiŝia3"
    },
    {
      "word": "ŝi"
    },
    {
      "word": "ŝin"
    },
    {
      "word": "ŝia"
    },
    {
      "word": "ĝi"
    },
    {
      "word": "ĝin"
    },
    {
      "word": "ĝia"
    },
    {
      "word": "riŝli"
    },
    {
      "word": "rinŝlin"
    },
    {
      "word": "riaŝlia"
    },
    {
      "word": "si"
    },
    {
      "word": "sin"
    },
    {
      "word": "sia"
    },
    {
      "word": "oni"
    },
    {
      "word": "onin"
    },
    {
      "word": "onia"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Esperanto 1-syllable words",
        "Esperanto entries with incorrect language header",
        "Esperanto gender-neutral terms",
        "Esperanto lemmas",
        "Esperanto nonstandard terms",
        "Esperanto pronouns",
        "Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation",
        "Esperanto terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 33 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:Esperanto/i"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              25,
              29
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              17,
              19
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Why is it important, who they are?",
          "ref": "1997, Liland Brajant ROS', “Pri Sennaciistaj postulatoj”, in soc.culture.esperanto (Usenet):",
          "text": "Kial gravas, kiu ri estas?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              66,
              70
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              56,
              58
            ]
          ],
          "english": "A neighbor working in the same workplace / In the beautiful house they don't paint anymore",
          "ref": "2006, “Maldormemo mia”, in Eksenlime, performed by La Perdita Generacio:",
          "text": "Najbaro laboranta en la sama laborejo / En la bela domo ri ne pentras plu",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              4
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              2
            ]
          ],
          "english": "They were the most patient and intelligent dog I had ever met.",
          "ref": "2014, Roland Bonkorpa, “Fiinsulo”, in Beletra Almanako, number 21, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:",
          "text": "Ri estis la plej pacienca kaj inteligenta hundo, kiun mi iam renkontis.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gender-neutral",
          "gender-neutral#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(gender-neutral, nonstandard) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gender-neutral",
        "nonstandard"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "ri (pronoun)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ri/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-i"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "non standard",
      "tags": [
        "neologism"
      ],
      "word": "ŝli"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ri"
}

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