grammatical person
grammatical person noun: 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.
Noun
grammatical person (countable and uncountable, plural grammatical persons)
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- person
grammatical person meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Thai and Vietnamese
grammatical person in Tamil
- grammatical person, of which there are three in number
- இடம் iṭam
grammatical person in Malayalam
- grammatical person
- പുരുഷൻ puruṣaṉ
grammatical person in Thai
- linguistic category
- บุรุษ bù-rùt
grammatical person in Vietnamese
- linguistic category
- ngôi
Synonyms of grammatical person
Forms of grammatical person
| plural | grammatical persons |
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Origin of grammatical person
By surface analysis from grammatical + person. Displaced native Old English hād.
Questions about grammatical person
- What does grammatical person mean?
- Grammatical person means 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.
- What is grammatical person in Tamil?
- Grammatical person in Tamil is இடம் (iṭam). See Grammatical person meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is grammatical person?
- Grammatical person is a noun.
- What is the plural of grammatical person?
- The plural of grammatical person is grammatical persons.
Words near grammatical person in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: grammatical person (page history and authors); இடம் (Tamil) (page history and authors); പുരുഷൻ (Malayalam) (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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