grammatical person

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Grammatical person

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1 English
- 1.1 Noun
  - 1.1.1 Translations
- 1.2 See also

English [edit]

Noun [edit]

grammatical person (plural grammatical persons)

(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 [edit]

linguistic category

Chinese:

Mandarin: 人稱 (cmn), 人称 (cmn) (rénchēng)

Finnish: kieliopillinen persoona (fi)

See also [edit]

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