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English
Examples
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- In the Spanish clause ¿estás frío? ("are you cold?"), there is no pronoun for "you" expressed, because the verb's inflection conveys the grammatical person (second person, singular, familiar, you ). An overliteral understanding of the Spanish clause would be "are cold?".
- In the English sentence Makes no difference, the dummy subject it can be dropped, informally, because its meaning is obvious even without it.
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Etymology
pro(noun) + drop, with clipping.
Adjective
prodrop (not comparable)
- (linguistics, of a language or of some utterances within one) In which certain classes of pronoun may be omitted when they can be inferred.
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