grammatical person

grammatical person

English

Noun

grammatical person (countable and uncountable, plural grammatical persons)

1. (grammar) 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.

Translations

linguistic category

Chinese: Mandarin: 人稱／人称 (zh) (rénchēng) Finnish: kieliopillinen persoona Georgian: პირი (ka) (ṗiri) Hungarian: nyelvtani személy, személy (hu) Japanese: 人称 (ja) (にんしょう, ninshō) Kazakh: тұлға (kk) (tūlğa) Korean: 인칭 (ko) (inching) Lao: ບຸຣຸດ (bu rut), ບຸລຸດ (bu lut) Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: лицо́ (ru) n (licó), граммати́ческое лицо́ n (grammatíčeskoje licó) Thai: บุรุษ (th) (bù-rùt) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: ngôi (vi)

See also

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