Person: person
| Values: | 1 | 2 | 3 |
In Khoekhoe, Person is a feature of nominals: nouns, proper nouns, and pronouns. It is also an inflectional feature of other parts of speech (adjectives, determiners), and adverbs) that mark agreement with nominals when they follow them, and of numerals that may function as nominals (e.g., ǀguis ge ge kō “one looked”). There are three values of person: 1, 2, and 3. Noun roots can be used with suffixes of different persons.
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
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tita “I”, sikhom “we two (masc. excl.)”, sam “we two (fem./neut. excl.)”, sige “we (masc. excl.)”, sise “we (fem. excl.)” sada “we (neut. incl.)”
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ti “my”
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Tita ge ǂnoaba-aota. “I am a lawyer”
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.
Examples
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sats “you (masc. sing.)”, sas “you (fem. sing.)”, sakho “you two (masc.)”, saro “you two (fem./neut.)”, sago “you (masc. plur.)”, saso “you (fem. plur.)”, sadu “you (neut. plur.)”
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sa ‘your (sing.)’
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Abotse “You God”
3: third person
The third person refers to one or more persons that are neither speakers nor addressees.
Examples
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ǁîb “he” ǁîs “she”, ǁî-i “it”, ǁîkha “they two (masc.)”, ǁîra “they two (fem./neut.)”, ǁîgu “they (masc.)”, ǁîdi “they (fem.)”, ǁîn “they (neut.)”
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khoeb “person”
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]