second person

English

Alternative forms

• 2nd person
• IInd person

Noun

second person (countable and uncountable, plural second persons)

2. (grammar) 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”.

3. 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.

Derived terms

• second-person dual
• second-person plural
• second-person singular

Translations

the form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience

Albanian: veta e dytë f Arabic: مُخَاطَب m (muḵāṭab) Belarusian: друга́я асо́ба f (druhája asóba) Bengali: মধ্যম পুরুষ (bn) (moddhom puruś) Bulgarian: вто́ро лице́ n (vtóro licé) Catalan: segona persona f Chinese: Mandarin: 第二人稱 / 第二人称 (zh) (dì'èrrénchēng) Czech: druhá osoba (cs) f Dutch: tweede persoon (nl) m Finnish: toinen persoona French: deuxième personne (fr) f Galician: segunda persoa (gl) f Georgian: მეორე პირი (meore ṗiri) German: zweite Person f Greek: δεύτερο πρόσωπο n (déftero prósopo) Ancient: δεύτερον πρόσωπον n (deúteron prósōpon) Hebrew: נוֹכֵחַ (he) m (nokhéakh), גּוּף שֵׁנִי (he) m (gúf shení) Hungarian: második személy (hu) Icelandic: önnur persóna f Italian: seconda persona (it) f Japanese: 二人称 (ja) (ににんしょう, nininshō) Korean: 이인칭(二人稱) (ko) (iinching), 2인칭 (2inching) Lithuanian: antrasis asmuo (lt) m Macedonian: второ лице n (vtoro lice) Navajo: bichʼį́ʼ yáʼátiʼígíí Norman: deûxième pèrsonne f Norwegian: Bokmål: andre person m Old English: ōþer hād m Polish: druga osoba f Portuguese: segunda pessoa (pt) f Romanian: persoana a doua f Russian: второ́е лицо́ (ru) n (vtoróje licó) Sanskrit: मध्यमपुरुष (sa) m (madhyamá-puruṣa) Scottish Gaelic: an dara pearsa m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: друго лице n, друга особа f Roman: drugo lice n, druga osoba f Slovak: druhá osoba f Slovene: druga oseba f Swedish: andra person (sv) c Tagalog: ikalawang panauhan Tamil: முன்னிலை (ta) (muṉṉilai) Telugu: మధ్యమ పురుషము (te) (madhyama puruṣamu) Turkish: ikinci kişi Ukrainian: дру́га осо́ба f (drúha osóba) Uyghur: ئىككىنچى شەخس (ikkinchi shexs) Vietnamese: ngôi thứ hai (vi)

See also

• first person
• third person

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