• first-person,1st person,Ist person

Calque ofLatinprīma persōna, itself a calque ofAncient Greekπρῶτον πρόσωπον(prôton prósōpon).

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firstperson (countable anduncountable,pluralfirst persons)

2. (grammar) Forms of pronouns orverbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.

   "Am" is thefirst person singular of "to be".

   • 2008,BioWare,Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→ISBN,→OCLC, PC, scene: Hanar Codex entry:

     All hanar have two names. The Face Name is known to the world; the Soul Name is kept for use among close friends and relations. Hanar never refer to themselves in thefirst person in conversation with someone they know on a Face Name basis. To do so is considered egotistical, so instead they refer to themselves as "this one", or the impersonal "it".

3. A form of narrative writing using verbs in the first person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the narrator.

• grammatical person

• second person
• third person