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monopersonal

monopersonal adjective: having only one grammatical person.

Adjective

monopersonal (not comparable)

  1. Having only one grammatical person.
    • Grammars of several languages traditionally list a subcategory of monopersonal verbs that occur only in the third-person but not in the first or second. Some such verbs do not even occur in the third-person plural. For instance, Finnish has several subtypes of monopersonal verbs, here all listed in...2000, G. E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, Morphology, Walter de Gruyter, page 650

Origin of monopersonal

From mono- + personal.

Questions about monopersonal

What does monopersonal mean?
Monopersonal means having only one grammatical person.
What part of speech is monopersonal?
Monopersonal is an adjective.

Words near monopersonal in the dictionary

  1. monopeptide
  2. monopeptides
  3. monopeptidyl
  4. monoperiodic
  5. monoperiodically
  6. monopersonal
  7. monopersulfate
  8. monopersulfates
  9. monopetalous
  10. monophage
  11. monophages

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