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Fourth person

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Noun
  1. 1
    A variety of the third person sometimes used for indefinite referents, such as one, as in one shouldn't do that. uncountable
  2. 2
    grammatical person in some languages distinct from first, second, and third persons, semantically translated by one of them in English. For example, in Ojibwe, it is a variety of the third person used for a secondary, or obviative, third person. uncountable

    "The man saw the dog as he was leaving. (if he is the third person, or proximate, it refers to the man; if he is the fourth person, or obviative, it refers to the dog)"

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