monopersonal en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- Middle English personal English personal English monopersonal From mono- + personal.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having only one grammatical person.
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): […]
2000, G. E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, Morphology, Walter de Gruyter, page 650:
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Translations (1)
fi yksipersoonainen (having one grammatical person)