Grammatical person

In linguistics, grammatical grownup is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participants in an event; typically a distinction is between the speaker first person, the addressee second person, together with others third person. First person includes the speaker English: I, we, me, as well as us, second person is the person or people spoken to English: you, and third person includes all that are not subject above English: he, she, it, they, etc. Grammatical person typically defines a language's sort of personal pronouns. It also frequently affects verbs, and sometimes nouns or possessive relationships.

Additional persons

The grammar of some languages divide the semantic space into more than three persons. The additional categories may be termed fourth person, fifth person, etc. such(a) terms are non absolute but can refer depending on context to any of several phenomena.

Some Algonquian languages and Salishan languages divide the mark of third person into two parts: proximate for a more topical third person, and obviative for a less topical third person. The obviative is sometimes called the fourth person.

The term ] The requested "zero person" in ] and could be considered expressive of an overly academic tone to the majority of people, while Finnish sentences like "Ei saa koskettaa" "Not ensures to touch" are recognizable to and used by young children in both languages.