Person: person
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Person is a lexical feature of personal and possessive pronouns and determiners, and an inflectional feature of auxiliaries and verbs.
1: first person
In Spanish, the first person singular (yo, “I”) and first person plural (nosotros/nosotras, “we”) represent the speaker. It denotes the person or group that is speaking or writing. This is reflected in the verb forms, which are inflected to show the first person.
Examples
- Yo hablo “I speak”
- Nosotros comemos “We eat”
2: second person
The second person singular (tú, “you”) and second person plural (vosotros/vosotras, “you all”) in Spanish represent the person or people that the speaker is talking to. This is reflected in the verb forms, which are inflected to show the second person.
Examples
- Tú comes “You eat”
- Vosotros habláis “You all speak”
3: third person
In Spanish, the third person singular (él/ella/ello, “he/she/it”) and third person plural (ellos/ellas, “they”) represent someone or something that is neither the speaker nor the addressee. This is reflected in the verb forms, which are inflected to show the third person.
Examples
- Él habla “He speaks”
- Ellas comen “They eat”
Person in other languages: [aqz] [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [en] [es] [eu] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gn] [gub] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [ky] [myu] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [quc] [ru] [sl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl]