first person

first person noun: forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.

Noun

first person (countable and uncountable, plural first persons)

Forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.
- "Am" is the first person singular of "to be".
- All hanar have two names. The Face Name is known to the world; the Soul Name is kept for use among close friends and relations. Hanar never refer to themselves in the first person in conversation with someone they know on a Face Name basis. To do so is considered egotistical, so instead they refer...2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Hanar Codex entry
A form of narrative writing using verbs in the first person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the narrator.

first person meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

first person in Hindi

first person: उत्तम पुरुष uttam puruṣ

first person in Tamil

the form of a pronoun verb used when the subject of a sentence is making the statement: தன்மை taṉmai

first person in Marathi

the form of a pronoun verb used when the subject of a sentence is making the statement: उत्तम पुरुष uttam puruṣ

first person in Bengali

the form of a pronoun verb used when the subject of a sentence is making the statement: উত্তম পুরুষ uttom puruś

More languagesFewer languages

first person in Telugu: ఉత్తమ పురుషము uttama puruṣamu
first person in Kannada: ಆಡುಗ
first person in Sanskrit: उत्तमपुरुष uttamápuruṣa
first person in Tagalog: unang panauhan
first person in Arabic: مُتَكَلِّم mutakallim
first person in Indonesian: orang pertama
first person in Thai: บุรุษที่หนึ่ง
first person in Vietnamese: ngôi thứ nhất

Forms of first person

plural	first persons
alternative form	first-person
alternative form	1st person
alternative form	Ist person

Origin of first person

Calque of Latin prīma persōna, itself a calque of Ancient Greek πρῶτον πρόσωπον (prôton prósōpon). Displaced native Old English forma had, literally, "form hade".

Words formed from first person

Questions about first person

What does first person mean?: First person means forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.
What is first person in Hindi?: First person in Hindi is उत्तम पुरुष (uttam puruṣ). See First person meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is first person?: First person is a noun.
What is the plural of first person?: The plural of first person is first persons.

Words near first person in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: first person (page history and authors); उत्तम पुरुष (Hindi) (page history and authors); first person (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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