"grammatical person" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: grammatical persons [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: grammatical person Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Grammar Synonyms: grammatical person, person Hypernyms: reference Holonyms: word Related terms: first person, second person, third person, fourth person, singular, plural Translations (linguistic category): 人稱 (Chinese Mandarin), 人称 (rénchēng) (Chinese Mandarin), kieliopillinen persoona (Finnish), პირი (ṗiri) (Georgian), გრამატიკული პირი (gramaṭiḳuli ṗiri) (Georgian), nyelvtani személy (Hungarian), személy (Hungarian), 人称 (ninshō) (alt: にんしょう) (Japanese), тұлға (tūlğa) (Kazakh), 인칭 (inching) (Korean), ບຸຣຸດ (bu rut) (Lao), ບຸລຸດ (bu lut) (Lao), лицо́ (licó) [neuter] (Russian), граммати́ческое лицо́ (grammatíčeskoje licó) [neuter] (Russian), บุรุษ (bù-rùt) (Thai), ngôi (Vietnamese)

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