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Person

Grammatical person indicates the relationship of speaker or writer to the rest of the sentence. First person refers to the speaker or to the speaker group. Second person refers to whomever is being spoken to. Third person refers to the entity being spoken about.

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Subject Pronouns
Object Pronouns
Direct Object Pronouns
Indirect Object Pronouns
Disjunctive (Prepositional) Pronouns
Reflexive Pronouns
Possessive Pronouns

Verbs are inflected (receive different endings) to agree with the person of the subject:

parler (to talk)
1st person je parle, nous parlons
2nd person tu parles, vous parlez
3rd person il/elle parle, ils/elles parlent

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Verbs
1st Conjugation
2nd Conjugation
3rd Conjugation

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