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IInd person

IInd person is the alternative form 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 IInd person

What is IInd person the alternative form of?
IInd person is the alternative form of second person.

Words near IInd person in the dictionary

  1. IIMite
  2. IIMites
  3. IIMs
  4. IIN
  5. IInd
  6. IInd person
  7. IINM
  8. IIOP
  9. IIOPs
  10. IIPA
  11. IIPAs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: IInd 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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