What does second-person singular mean?

Definitions for second-person singular
sec·ond-per·son sin·gu·lar

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  1. second-person singularnoun

    The form of a verb used (in English and other languages) with the pronouns thou and you in its singular sense (or their equivalents in other languages).

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  1. second-person singular

    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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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of second-person singular in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of second-person singular in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5


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  • la segunda persona del singularSpanish
  • second-person singularFrench

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