monopersonal

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adjective

Having only one grammatical person.

OriginEnglish personal ← Middle English personal ← Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-) →
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Meanings

adjectivemonopersonal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablegrammarHaving only one grammatical person.
    1 more example

    Grammars of several languages traditionally list a subcategory of monopersonal verbs that occur only in the third-person but not in the first or second. Some such verbs do not even occur in the third-person plural. For instance, Finnish has several subtypes of monopersonal verbs, here all listed in the third person singular (marked by lenghthening of the stem-vowel): […]

    2000, G. E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, Morphology, Walter de Gruyter, page 650

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
impersonal

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekμόνος (mónos)
  2. Ancient Greekμονο- (mono-)
  3. Englishmono-
  4. Middle Englishpersonal
  5. Englishpersonal
  6. Englishmonopersonal

From mono- + personal.

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Translations

Finnish yksipersoonainen
  • yksipersoonainenhaving one grammatical person
Cite this entry
APA

monopersonal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monopersonal

MLA

“monopersonal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monopersonal. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “monopersonal,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monopersonal.

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