Person: person
| Values: | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Person is a feature of personal pronouns and 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 (Armenian is a pro-drop language).
We also apply the feature Person[psor] to denote the person of the possessor on nominal and pronominal 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
- անեմ/anem “I do
Sub” - անենք/anenkʼ “we do
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
- անես/anes “you
SingdoSub” - անեք/anekʼ “you
PlurdoSub”
3: third person
The third person refers to one or more persons that are neither speakers nor addressees.
Examples
- անի/ani “he/she/it does
Sub” - անեն/anen “they do
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]