# pronouns

A short string listing or describing pronouns for a person. Typically the person concerned is the best authority as pronouns are a critical part of personal identity and expression. Publishers and consumers of this information are reminded to treat this data responsibly, take country-specific laws related to gender expression into account, and be wary of out-of-date data and drawing unwarranted inferences about the person being described.

In English, formulations such as "they/them", "she/her", and "he/him" are commonly used online and can also be used here. We do not intend to enumerate all possible micro-syntaxes in all languages. More structured and well-defined external values for pronouns can be referenced using the [StructuredValue](https://schema.org.ai/StructuredValue) or [DefinedTerm](https://schema.org.ai/DefinedTerm) values.

## Expected Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [DefinedTerm](https://schema.org.ai/DefinedTerm) | A word, name, acronym, phrase, etc. with a formal definition. Often used in the context of category or subject classification, glossaries or dictionaries, product or creative work types, etc. Use the name property for the term being defined, use termCode if the term has an alpha-numeric code allocated, use description to provide the definition of the term. Use the about property to specify what the term is about. |
| [StructuredValue](https://schema.org.ai/StructuredValue) | Structured values are used when the value of a property has a more complex structure than simply being a textual value or a reference to another thing. |
| [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text) | Data type: Text. |

## Used on Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [Person](https://schema.org.ai/Person) | A person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional). |

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Quoted from Schema.org 30.1, https://schema.org/pronouns, under CC BY-SA 3.0. Served by the Org.AI Foundation at https://schema.org.ai/pronouns.