Person: person
Person is a feature of verbs (TODO: also pronouns?).
0: zero person
Zero person is for impersonal statements.
Examples
- kollegani silmistä näki “my colleague saw through his eyes” lit. “it was seen through my colleague’s eyes”
1: first person
In singular, the first person refers just to the speaker or author. In plural, it includes the speaker/author and one or more additional persons.
Examples
- [fi] minä näin sinut “I saw you”
- [fi] me lähdimme “we left”
2: second person
In singular, the second person refers to the addressee of the utterance or text. In plural, it may mean several addressees and optionally some third persons too.
Examples
- [fi] me tarjoamme “we offer”
- [fi] te vastaatte “you answer”
3: third person
The third person refers to one or more persons that are neither speakers nor addressees.
Examples
- [fi] hän voitti “he/she won”
- [fi] he päättivät “they decided”
TODO: consider fourth person, e.g. kirja julkaistiin? (cf. ISK http://scripta.kotus.fi/visk/sisallys.php?p=106, http://scripta.kotus.fi/visk/sisallys.php?p=1313)
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]