grammatical person

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Translations 1.2 See also

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[edit] 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.

[edit] Translations

Finnish: kieliopillinen persoona

[edit] See also

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