Meanings
plural grammatical persons
- countableuncountablegrammarA linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and other people; implemented in most languages by a variety of pronouns, and in inflected languages by variation in word endings.
Synonyms: person
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and other people; implemented in most languages by a variety of pronouns, and in inflected languages by variation in word endings.
Origin
By surface analysis from grammatical + person. Displaced native Old English hād.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 人稱 /人称
- 人稱 /人称 (rénchēng)linguistic category
Finnish kieliopillinen persoona
- kieliopillinen persoonalinguistic category
Hungarian nyelvtani személy, személy
- nyelvtani személylinguistic category
- személylinguistic category
Japanese 人称
- 人称 (ninshō)linguistic category
Korean 인칭
- 인칭 (inching)linguistic category
Polish osoba
- osobalinguistic category
Portuguese pessoa
- pessoalinguistic category
Russian лицо́, граммати́ческое лицо́
- лицо́ (licó)linguistic category
- граммати́ческое лицо́ (grammatíčeskoje licó)linguistic category
Spanish persona gramatical
- persona gramaticallinguistic category
Thai บุรุษ
- บุรุษ (bù-rùt)linguistic category
Vietnamese ngôi
- ngôilinguistic category
Cite this entry
grammatical person. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grammatical%20person
“grammatical person.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grammatical%20person. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grammatical person,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grammatical%20person.
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