grammatical person
Linguistic term referring to first, second, or third person in grammar. Used in contexts like 一人称 (first person), 二人称 (second person), 三人称 (third person).
日本語の動詞は人称によって変化しない。
Japanese verbs do not change according to grammatical person.
This novel is written in the first person.
Specifically 'third person'; 人称 is the general category.
first person · self-reference term; term used to refer to oneself
second person (grammar) · second-person address term
first person
third person
second person
personal pronoun
Compound of 人 (person) and 称 (name, designation). A Meiji-era coinage as a translation of the Western grammatical concept 'person'.