fourth person

短语

别名

4th person

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

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  2. 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.

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    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)