monopersonal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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): […]"

Etymology tree Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- Middle English personal English personal English monopersonal From mono- + personal.

impersonal verb

impersonal verb

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What does monopersonal mean?

Having only one grammatical person.

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