fourth person
nounDefinitions
A variety of the third person sometimes used for indefinite referents, such as one, as in…
A variety of the third person sometimes used for indefinite referents, such as one, as in one shouldn't do that.
grammatical person in some languages distinct from first, second, and third persons,…
grammatical person in some languages distinct from first, second, and third persons, semantically translated by one of them in English. For example, in Ojibwe, it is a variety of the third person used for a secondary, or obviative, third person.
- The man saw the dog as he was leaving. (if he is the third person, or proximate, it refers to the man; if he is the fourth person, or obviative, it refers to the dog)
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fourth 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