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Second person

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2nd personnounAbbreviation of second person. [(grammar) The form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns thou and you. In many languages the singular, applying to one person, and plural, applying to several people, are distinct.]
iind personnounAlternative form of second person. [(grammar) The form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns thou and you. In many languages the singular, applying to one person, and plural, applying to several people, are distinct.]
second-person singularnoun(grammar) The pronouns thou and you (singular), or their equivalents in other languages.
third personnoun(linguistics, with "the") The words, word-forms, and grammatical structures, taken collectively, that are normally used of people or things other than the speaker or the audience.
third-person pluralnoun(grammar) The form of a verb used (in English and other languages) with plural nouns and with the pronoun they (or its equivalents in other languages).
third-person singularnoun(grammar) The form of a verb used (in English and other languages) with singular nouns and with the pronouns he, she, it and one (or their equivalents in other languages).
second-person pluralnoun(grammar) The pronouns you (plural), y'all, you guys, youse, yinz, etc., or their equivalents in other languages.
first-person singularnoun(grammar) The pronoun I (or its equivalent in other languages).
royal wenounThe first-person plural pronoun as traditionally used in formal speech by any royal personage to refer to themselves, most especially a sovereign in their role as the monarch.
vocative casenoun(grammar) case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.
interrogative pronounnoun(grammar) A pronoun used in a question. In English, the five interrogative pronouns are what, which, who, whom, and whose (also used as relative pronouns). These require no antecedent.
quirky subjectnoun(grammar) A subject in a grammatical case other than the nominative (used with certain verbs in some languages, e.g. Icelandic).
englishnounOf or pertaining to England.
possessive determinernoun(grammar) A determiner used to demonstrate the possession of the object referenced by the following noun.
inglishnoun(dated, rare) Alternative spelling of English. [(in the plural) The people of England, e.g., Englishmen and Englishwomen.]
possessive casenoun(grammar) case used to express direct possession, ownership, origin, etc. Though similar in many ways to the genitive case, it is not always the same. Languages that have the possessive case include English and Quenya.
vernacularnounThe language of a people or a national language.
american englishnounThe form of the English language that is chiefly used in the United States, contrasted with British English or Canadian English and that of other places.
edited englishnoun(linguistics) Standard English in written form
usagenounThe act of using something; use, employment.

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