monopersonal

English

Etymology

mono- +‎ personal

Adjective

monopersonal (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Having only one grammatical person.
   • 2000, G. E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, Morphology, Walter de Gruyter, page 650:

     Grammars of several languages traditionally list a subcategory of monopersonal verbs that occur only in the third-person but not in the first or second. Some such verbs do not even occur in the third-person plural. For instance, Finnish has several subtypes of monopersonal verbs, here all listed in the third person singular (marked by lenghthening of the stem-vowel): […]

Related terms

• impersonal verb

Translations

having one grammatical person

• Finnish: yksipersoonainen