second person

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second person

1. The grammatical category of forms that designate the person addressed. Examples of forms in the second person include English pronouns such as you and verb forms such as Spanish hablas "you speak."

2. A discourse or literary style in which the narrator recounts his or her own experiences or impressions using such forms: a story told in the second person.

second-person (s

nd-pûr

n) adj.

second person

(Linguistics) a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used when referring to or describing the individual or individuals being addressed

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second person - pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur

person - a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party; "stop talking about yourself in the third person"

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