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gram·mat·i·cal per·son

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  1. grammatical personnoun

    A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is referring; implemented in most languages by a variety of pronouns, and in inflected languages by variation in word endings.

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  1. Grammatical person

    In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person). A language's set of personal pronouns are defined by grammatical person, but other pronouns would not. First person includes the speaker (English: I, we, me, and us), second person is the person or people spoken to (English: you), and third person includes all that are not listed above (English: he, she, it, they, him, her, them). It also frequently affects verbs, and sometimes nouns or possessive relationships.

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  1. Grammatical person

    Grammatical person, in linguistics, is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant in an event; typically the distinction is between the speaker, the addressee, and others. Grammatical person typically defines a language's set of personal pronouns. It also frequently affects verbs, sometimes nouns, and possessive relationships.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of grammatical person in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of grammatical person in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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