Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

grammatical person

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables: gram-mat-i-cal per-son
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A 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.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

By surface analysis from grammatical + person. Displaced native Old English hād.

Usage

Inflected Forms

grammatical persons (plural)

Phrases

first person second person third person fourth person

Frequently Paired Words

first person second person third person fourth person singular plural

Synonyms

grammatical person person

Questions

What does grammatical person mean?: A 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.
Where does grammatical person come from?: By surface analysis from grammatical + person. Displaced native Old English hād.

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