Person: person
| Values: | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Person is a lexical feature of personal, possessive, and reflexive pronouns / determiners, and an inflectional feature of auxiliaries / verbs. On verbs, the feature marks the person of the verb’s subject. Person marked on verbs makes it unnecessary to always add a personal pronoun as subject and thus subjects are sometimes dropped (Classical Armenian is a pro-drop language).
1: first person
The first person refers to the speaker.
Examples
- Personal pronoun: ես/es “I”
- Verb: ասեմ/asem “I say”
2: second person
The second person refers to the addressee.
Examples
- Personal pronoun: դու/dow “you”
- Verb: ասես/ases “you say”
3: third person
The third person refers to participants that are neither speakers nor addressees.
Examples
- Personal pronoun: իւր/iwr “self”
- Verb: ասէ/asē “(s)he says”
References
Առաքելեան, Վարագ. 2010. Գրաբարի քերականութիւն. Երևան: Վիամիր․ [Araqelian, Varag. 2010. Grammar of Grabar. Yerevan: Viamir]
Jensen, Hans. 1959. Altarmenische Grammatik. Heidelberg: Winter.
Meillet, Antoine. 1913. Altarmenisches Elementarbuch. Heidelberg: Winters (Internet Archive)
Meillet, Antoine. 1962. Études de linguistique et de philologie arméniennes. I: Recherches sur la syntaxe comparée de l’arménien. Suivies de la composition en arménien. Lisbonne: Imprensa Nacional de Lisboa.
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]