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first person

noun

Etymology

Calque of Latin prīma persōna, itself a calque of Ancient Greek πρῶτον πρόσωπον (prôton prósōpon).

  1. derived from πρῶτον πρόσωπον

Definitions

  1. Forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they…

    Forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.

    • "Am" is the first person singular of "to be".

  2. A form of narrative writing using verbs in the first person in order to give the…

    A form of narrative writing using verbs in the first person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the narrator.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for first person. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA