Person: person
Person is marked for verbs and pronouns in French, as first (1), second (2), or third (3) person.
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. Some languages (e.g. Taiwanese) distinguish inclusive and exclusive 1st person plural pronouns: the former include the addressee of the utterance (i.e. I + you), the latter exclude them (i.e. I + they).
Examples
- je, nous
- je fais “I do”
- nous faisons “we do”
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
- tu, vous
- tu fais “you do”
- vous faites “you do”
3: third person
The third person refers to one or more persons that are neither speakers nor addressees.
Examples
- il, elle, ils, elles
- il fait “he does”
- elles font “they do”
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]