M_a_r_c wrote:
> "Nicolas Alvarez" <nic### [at] gmailcom> a �crit dans le message de
> news: 4ba670f1@news.povray.org...
>> Spanish has six different forms (one per grammatical person) for each
>> tense.
> please define "grammatical person"  :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person

I, you, he, she, it, we, they. Those are the English ones. In Spanish, the 
verb is conjugated the same for he/she/it, and there are separate 'you' for 
plural and singular.

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> M_a_r_c wrote:
>> "Nicolas Alvarez" <nic### [at] gmailcom> a ?crit dans le message de
>> news: 4ba670f1@news.povray.org...
>>> Spanish has six different forms (one per grammatical person) for each
>>> tense.
>> please define "grammatical person"  :)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person
>
> I, you, he, she, it, we, they. Those are the English ones. In Spanish, the
> verb is conjugated the same for he/she/it, and there are separate 'you' 
> for
> plural and singular.

So English is the reference?
IIRC when in Spanish you say "Usted", you adress directly a person but with 
the 3rd person conjugation.
Isn't it a different semantic concept, thus an extra grammatical person?

Marc

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