Person: person
| Values: | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Person is a feature of personal pronouns, possessive determiners, auxiliaries and verbs. On verbs it is in fact an agreement feature that marks the person of the verb’s subject. Person marked on verbs makes it unnecessary to always add a personal pronoun as subject and thus subjects are sometimes dropped (Middle Armenian is a pro-drop language).
We also apply the feature Person[psor] to denote the person of the possessor on nominal elements.
1: first person
In singular, the first person refers just to the speaker / author. In plural, it must include the speaker and one or more additional persons.
Examples
- ասեմ/asem “I say
Sub” - ասեմք (ասենք)/asemk’ “we say
Sub”
2: second person
In singular, the second person refers to the addressee of the utterance / text. In plural, it may mean several addressees and optionally some third persons too.
Examples
- կամենաս/kamenas “you
SingwishSub” - կամենայք/kamenayk’ “you
PlurwishSub”
3: third person
The third person refers to one or more persons that are neither speakers nor addressees.
Examples
- նստի/nsti “he/she/it sits
Sub” - նստին/nstin “they sit
Sub”
Person in other languages: [aqz] [arr] [axm] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [en] [es] [eu] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gn] [gub] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [ky] [myu] [naq] [oge] [pal] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [quc] [ru] [sl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xav] [xcl]