grammatical person
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grammatical person
Where it comes from
By surface analysis from grammatical + person. Displaced native Old English hād.
noun grammatical persons
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A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and other people; implemented in most languages by a variety of pronouns, and in inflected languages by variation in word endings.
Similar: grammatical person, person
Translations
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noun linguistic category
| Español | persona gramatical |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 인칭 inching |
| 日本語 | 人称 ninshō |
| 中文 | 人稱 /人称 rénchēng |
| Português | pessoa |
| Русский | лицо́ licó, граммати́ческое лицо́ grammatíčeskoje licó |
| Tiếng Việt | ngôi |
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@misc{grammatical_person_2026,
title = {grammatical person},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grammatical%20person},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
