grammatical person

English

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／人称 (zh) (rénchēng), 人称 (zh) (rénchēng)

• Finnish: kieliopillinen persoona
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• Hungarian: nyelvtani személy, személy (hu)
• Kazakh: тұлға (kk) (tūlğa)
• Vietnamese: ngôi (vi)

See also

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