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2nd person

2nd person is the abbreviation of second person.

Meaning of second person

Noun

second person (countable and uncountable, plural second persons)

  1. The form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns thou and you. In many languages the singular, applying to one person, and plural, applying to several people, are distinct.
    • “Are” is the second person of “to be”.
  2. A form of narrative writing using verbs in the second person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the reader.

Questions about 2nd person

What is 2nd person the abbreviation of?
2nd person is the abbreviation of second person.

Words near 2nd person in the dictionary

  1. 2nd grade
  2. 2nd grader
  3. 2nd graders
  4. 2nd parties
  5. 2nd party
  6. 2nd person
  7. 2ndhand
  8. 2ndly
  9. 2NF
  10. 2night
  11. 2nite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 2nd person (page history and authors); second person (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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