Person: person
In English, Person is a feature of personal and possessive pronouns, and of some verbs to mark agreement with its subject.
1: first person
In singular, the first person refers just to the speaker / author. In plural, it must include the speaker and one or more additional persons.
Examples
This feature is only used for pronouns and two inflections of be:
- am, was (if I is its subject), I, we, me, us, my, mine, our, ours, myself, ourselves
2: second person
In singular, the second person refers to the addressee of the utterance / text. In plural, it may mean several addressees and optionally some third persons too.
Examples
This feature is only used for pronouns:
- you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves
3: third person
The third person refers to one or more persons that are neither speakers nor addressees.
Examples
It is used for the following pronouns:
- he, she, it, they, him, her, them, his, hers, their, theirs, himself, herself, itself, themselves
Additionally, it is used for verbs that require a third person singular subject which have the PTB tag VBZ.
- he walks
- she is
Person in other languages: [aqz] [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [en] [es] [eu] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gn] [gub] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [ky] [myu] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [quc] [ru] [sl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl]