third person

third person

n.

1. The grammatical category of forms that designate a person or thing other than the speaker or the one spoken to. Examples of forms in the third person include English pronouns such as she and they and verb forms such as Spanish hablan "they speak."

2. A discourse or literary style in which the narrator recounts his or her own experiences or impressions using such forms: an essay written in the third person.

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third-person (thûrdpûrsn) adj.

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third person

n

(Linguistics / Grammar) a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used when referring to objects or individuals other than the speaker or his addressee(s)

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

third person - pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of 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"

Translations

third person n (Gram) → terza persona

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third person n (Gram) → terza persona