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Person: person

In Kyrgyz, Person is a feature of personal pronouns, and verbs. Person marking on verbs are obligatory in Kyrgyz for all finite verb forms. The Person marker on predicates indicate the subject when there is no over subject.

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.

It is used for pronouns Мен ‘I’ and биз ‘we’ and their inflected forms, and verbs with a first person plural/singular agreement suffix.

Examples

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.

It is used for pronouns сен ‘you-SING’ and сиз ‘you-PLU’ (informal), силер ‘you-PLU’ (formal) and their inflected forms, and verbs with a second person plural/singular agreement suffix.

The second person singular agreement suffix is null for verbs in imperative form.

Examples

3: third person

The third person refers to one or more persons that are neither speakers nor addressees.

It is used for pronouns ал ‘he/she/it’ and алар ‘they’ and their inflected forms, and verbs with a second third plural/singular agreement suffix. The third person singular agreement suffix is null in most cases.

Examples


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]