fourth person

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A variety of the third person sometimes used for indefinite referents, such as one, as in one shouldn't do that.
  2. 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.

Word forms

fourth person

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