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second person

noun

Definitions

  1. The form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the…

    The form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns thou and you. In many languages the singular, applying to one person, and plural, applying to several people, are distinct.

    • “Are” is the second person of “to be”.
    • “Hast” is the second person singular of the German verb “haben”.
    • “Habt” is the second person plural of the German verb “haben”.

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

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

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Derived

second-person dual, second-person plural, second-person singular

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for second 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