grammatical person

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Noun

grammatical person (plural grammatical persons)

1. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is referring; implemented in most languages by a variety of pronouns, and in inflected languages by variation in word endings.

Translations

linguistic category

Chinese: Mandarin: 人稱 (zh), 人称 (zh) (rénchēng)

Finnish: kieliopillinen persoona (fi)

See also

• first person
• second person
• third person
• fourth person
• singular
• plural