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Meaning of "first person plural" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FIRST PERSON PLURAL

first person plural  [fɜːst ˈpɜːs ən ˈplʊərəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FIRST PERSON PLURAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
First person plural is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FIRST PERSON PLURAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Grammatical person

Grammatical person, in linguistics, is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant in an event; typically the distinction is between the speaker, the addressee, and others. Grammatical person typically defines a language's set of personal pronouns. It also frequently affects verbs, sometimes nouns, and possessive relationships.

Definition of first person plural in the English dictionary

The definition of first person plural in the dictionary is a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself together with others.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FIRST PERSON PLURAL


caricatural
ˌkærɪkəˈtjʊərəl
crural
ˈkrʊərəl
dural
ˈdjʊərəl
epidural
ˌɛpɪˈdjʊərəl
extradural
ˌɛkstrəˈdjʊərəl
extramural
ˌɛkstrəˈmjʊərəl
intercrural
ˌɪntəˈkrʊərəl
interpleural
ˌɪntəˈplʊərəl
intramural
ˌɪntrəˈmjʊərəl
jural
ˈdʒʊərəl
mural
ˈmjʊərəl
neural
ˈnjʊərəl
pleural
ˈplʊərəl
plural
ˈplʊərəl
rural
ˈrʊərəl
somatopleural
ˌsəʊmətəˈplʊərəl
subdural
sʌbˈdjʊərəl
sural
ˈsjʊərəl
Ural
ˈjʊərəl
zygopleural
ˌzaɪɡəʊˈplʊərəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FIRST PERSON PLURAL

first mortgage
First Mover
first name
First Nation
first night
first offender
first officer
First Peoples
first performance
first person
first post
first prefect
first principle
first quarter
first reading
first refusal
First Reich
First Republic
first responder
first school

WORDS THAT END LIKE FIRST PERSON PLURAL

agricultural
architectural
aural
behavioural
cross-cultural
cultural
horticultural
inaugural
intercultural
multicultural
natural
procedural
sculptural
sociocultural
structural
supernatural
tellural
the supernatural
ultrastructural
unnatural

Synonyms and antonyms of first person plural in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «first person plural» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FIRST PERSON PLURAL

Find out the translation of first person plural to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of first person plural from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «first person plural» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

第一人称复数
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

primera persona del plural
570 millions of speakers

English

first person plural
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पहले व्यक्ति बहुवचन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أول شخص الجمع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

го лица множественного числа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

primeira pessoa do plural
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রথম ব্যক্তি বহুবচন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

première personne du pluriel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Orang pertama jamak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ersten Person Plural
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

一人称複数形
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

첫번째 사람 복수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

First person jamak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người đầu tiên số nhiều
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முதல் நபர் பன்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रथम व्यक्ती बहुवचन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Birinci kişi çoğul
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prima persona plurale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Pierwsza osoba liczby mnogiej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ї особи множини
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prima persoană plural
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρώτο πρόσωπο πληθυντικού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eerste persoon meervoud
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

första person plural
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

første person flertall
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of first person plural

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FIRST PERSON PLURAL»

The term «first person plural» is regularly used and occupies the 74.485 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FIRST PERSON PLURAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about first person plural

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIRST PERSON PLURAL»

Discover the use of first person plural in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to first person plural and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple
A victim of childhood sexual abuse, now a trained psychologist, chronicles his terrifying experience with multiple personalities later in life, detailing his road to recovery. Reprint.
Cameron West, 1999
2
First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy ...
This text argues that most explanations of multiple personalities fail to distinguish the condition clearly enough from related states such as hypnotic trance, dreaming, and mediumship, and maintains that even the deeply divided personality ...
Stephen E. Braude, 1995
3
First Person Plural
Conjoined twins Owen and Porter Jamison, inhabiting one body with two heads, one torso, and two very different hearts, find their tentative bond threatened when Owen discovers that he is gay, which nearly destroys Porter's marriage as a ...
Andrew W. M. Beierle, 2007
4
First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics ...
In this innovative exploration, told-to narratives, or collaborativelyproduced texts by Aboriginal storytellers and (usually) non-Aboriginalwriters, are not romanticized as unmediated translations of oraldocuments, nor are they dismissed as ...
Sophie McCall, 2011
5
First Person Plural: A Community Development Approach to ...
Here is essential reading for practitioners, policy makers, and activists working for social change in the fields of adult and popular education, community development, rural and urban planning, social services, health care, the environment ...
David Smith, Ted Jackson, 1995
6
The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by ...
Jeffrey Eugenides, 1993
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The Designation of the Individual: Expressive Usage in ...
The first person plural pronoun may cover the following groupings: speaker + addressee, speaker + addressee + oth- er(s), speaker + other(s). (See Henderson, 1985). For the present discussion (as often) only two groupings need be ...
E. J. Revell, Ernest John Revell, 1996
8
The "we" Passages in the Acts of the Apostles: The Narrator ...
Thucydides' prefaces employ third person singular for the most part, Polybius's is in first person plural, and Josephus uses first person singular in War and, in Antiquities, first person singular of the narrator individually and first person plural for ...
William S. Campbell, 2007
9
Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample
Here the original perfective third-person plural suffix -e extended not only to the second-person plural (as in the neighbouring Northeastern dialects), but also beyond, into the first-person plural. West Ukrainian Romani still retains variation in ...
Viktor Elšik, Yaron Matras, 2006
10
Grammar Simplified: Or, An Ocular Analysis of the English ...
We should be kind to them, who are unkind to us." We is a personal pronoun, first person, plural number, and nominative case to " should be," according to rule i. Should be is a neuter irregular verb, potential mood, imperfect tense, first person  ...
Jeremiah Greenleaf, 1824

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIRST PERSON PLURAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term first person plural is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Great shows
Twice now I have attended performances of “First Person Plural” at the Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse. Each show consisted of 13-15 minute ... «Ukiah Daily Journal, Jul 15»
2
DC You Review & Spoilers: Justice League United #11 By Jeff …
Speaking in the first person plural, all living things will be consumed. Adam ponders the soundness of his decision. JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED ... «Inside Pulse, Jul 15»
3
What It Takes ... To Write A Novel (Part 1!)
... of time finding the right point of view (a mix of close third person on the protagonist, plus the first person plural of the ghosts of America's dead ... «The Frisky, Jul 15»
4
Book review: Book of Numbers, Joshua Cohen
The more successful Cohen is depicted as borderline autistic, referring to himself in the first person plural and calling his parents “M-Unit” and ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
5
Book Giveaway & Review: 'Weightless' by Sarah Bannan
Sarah Bannan's deft use of the first person plural gives Weightless an emotional intensity and remarkable power that will send you flying ... «The Young Folks, Jul 15»
6
'Book of Numbers,' by Joshua Cohen
... where the very consciousness of the Internet, the joining of all worlds, is suggested by Principal's oracular insistence on the first person plural ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
7
What's Happening in Mendocino County: July 2-8
First Person Plural, All New Original Women's Monologues: On Thursday, July 2, at 7 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m., at the Philo Grange, 9800 ... «Ukiah Daily Journal, Jul 15»
8
Why College Kids Are Avoiding the Study of Literature
This “us” is a strange use of the first person plural, for it excludes the speakers. It's an us that excludes us. Perhaps we need a new grammatical ... «Commentary Magazine, Jul 15»
9
Britain's Fall of the House of Everything: Keep Calm and Carry On
"We," here, is the Royal "we", the use of the first person plural pronoun that is the prerogative of her majesty. For it is Queen Elizabeth herself ... «TheStreet.com, Jun 15»
10
Blue sky thinking: books to pack this summer
The reader sees Carolyn through the eyes of her peers, a group of girls who narrate the novel in the first person plural. It's a narrative trick that ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»

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