Person: person
| Values: | 1 | 2 | 3 |
In Naija, Person is typically a feature of personal, possessive and reciprocal pronouns.
1: first person
In singular, the first person refers just to the speaker. In plural, it must include the speaker and one or more additional persons. There is no distinction between inclusive and exclusive 1st person plural pronouns.
Examples
- I don hear you “I heard you”
2: second person
In singular, the second person refers to the addressee of the utterance. In plural, it may mean several addressees and optionally some third persons too.
Examples
- you go enter Lagos Ibadan expressway “you would enter Lagos Ibadan expressway”
- some of una no know “some of you don’t know”
3: third person
The third person refers to one or more persons that are neither speakers nor addressees.
Examples
- one man im dey drive “one man, he was driving”
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]