Description and quantity
Kinds of participants
Human, animal or thing
Is the participant human, living, or non-living?
animacy
అర్థం
A feature that can influence grammar depending on whether a participant is human, animate, animal, object, abstract, or respected.
ఎలా గుర్తించాలి
Notice whether people and living beings behave differently from objects in the sentence.
Visual guide
participant: Maria / dog / stone
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animacy feature
human? animal? thing? idea?
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grammar may change:
pronoun, object marker,
honorific, plural