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# Morphology.Pronoun

A custom pronoun for referring to a third person.

```
struct Pronoun
```

## Overview

Create instances of [`Morphology.Pronoun`](/documentation/Foundation/Morphology/Pronoun) when you need to define custom pronouns for a localized term of address.

For examples of how to create custom pronouns, see [`TermOfAddress`](/documentation/Foundation/TermOfAddress).

## Topics

### Creating pronouns

[`init(pronoun: String, morphology: Morphology, dependentMorphology: Morphology?)`](/documentation/Foundation/Morphology/Pronoun/init(pronoun:morphology:dependentMorphology:))

Creates a pronoun with the specified name, morphology, and dependent morphology.

### Using pronouns

[`var pronoun: String`](/documentation/Foundation/Morphology/Pronoun/pronoun)

The string representation of the pronoun.

[`var morphology: Morphology`](/documentation/Foundation/Morphology/Pronoun/morphology)

The morphology of the pronoun form.

[`var dependentMorphology: Morphology?`](/documentation/Foundation/Morphology/Pronoun/dependentMorphology)

The dependent morphology of the pronoun form.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Copyable`](/documentation/Swift/Copyable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`Decodable`](/documentation/Swift/Decodable)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`Escapable`](/documentation/Swift/Escapable)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`Encodable`](/documentation/Swift/Encodable)

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