English Dictionary

fourth person

名詞

不可算名詞

(grammar) A variety of the third person sometimes used for indefinite referents, such as one, as in one shouldn't do that.

日本語の意味

文法用語としての四人称。これは、特定の第三人称ではなく、不特定・一般的な対象（例：英語の 'one' のような意味）を指すために用いられる第三人称の変種を意味します。

Linguists often debate whether the fourth person should be recognized as a distinct grammatical category.

言語学者たちは、いわゆる不定の三人称（「一」に相当する用法）を独立した文法類別として認めるべきかどうかをしばしば議論する。

意味（1）

(grammar) A variety of the third person sometimes used for indefinite referents, such as one, as in one shouldn't do that.

意味（2）

(linguistics) 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.

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)