Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fourth person

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English

Syllables: fourth per-son
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A variety of the third person sometimes used for indefinite referents, such as one, as in one shouldn't do that.

Uncountable

noun

grammatical person in some languages distinct from first, second, and third persons, semantically translated by one of them in English. For example, in Ojibwe, it is a variety of the third person used for a secondary, or obviative, third person.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The man saw the dog as he was leaving. (if he is the third person, or proximate, it refers to the man; if he is the fourth person, or obviative, it refers to the dog)"

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

4th person (alternative)

Synonyms

obviative

Antonyms

proximate

Questions

What does fourth person mean?: A variety of the third person sometimes used for indefinite referents, such as one, as in one shouldn't do that.

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