English-German translations for fourth person

Definition of fourth person

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

Examples

• 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

Related words

• fourth
• twenty-fourth
• fourthly
• sixty-fourth
• thirty-fourth
• ninety-fourth
• eighty-fourth
• seventy-fourth
• fifty-fourth
• forty-fourth