demonstrative in the PONS Dictionary

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They have a weaker but significant tendency to place demonstrative adjectives before the nouns they modify.
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Subsequent changes often reduced the number of demonstrative distinctions.
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When written before the noun, an "i-" is prefixed to the demonstrative.
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These structures are head-initial, where the noun head comes before both the genitive and the demonstrative.
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For instance, in this sentence, village appears before the genitive pronoun our, and meeting appears before the demonstrative that.
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The proximal demonstrative "hiz" (this) was inflected as "iz".
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It is alleged that when a demonstrative pronoun is used with "kai", the pronoun refers back to the preceding noun.
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On show are small archaeological finds, objects from architectural sculpture and a demonstrative model of the once imposing building.
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The two sorts are: demonstrative reasoning, and probable reasoning.
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The demonstrative then used is dependent on the number and class of nouns.
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