Person: person
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Person is typically feature of personal and possessive pronouns / determiners, and of 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 may be dropped, as is the case in Italian.
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
- io “I”, noi “we”
- mio “my”, miei “my”, nostra “our”
- andavo “I was going”, corremmo “we ran”
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 “you”, voi “you”
- tuo “your”, vostra “your”
- canti “you sing”, dicevate “you were saying”
3: third person
The third person refers to one or more persons that are neither speakers nor addressees.
Examples
- lui “he”, lei “she”, egli “he”, loro “they”
- loro “their”, sua “her”
- legge “she reads”, abbracciano “they hug”
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]