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  2. Impersonal verb - Wikipedia

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    Verbs can be impersonal in French when they do not take a real personal subject as they do not represent any action, occurrence or state-of-being that can be attributed to a person, place or a thing. [11] In French, as in English, these impersonal verbs take on the impersonal pronoun - il in French. Il faut que tu fasses tes devoirs.

  3. Personal god - Wikipedia

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    A personal god, or personal goddess, is a deity who can be related to as a person (anthropomorphic), [1] instead of as an impersonal force, such as the Absolute.In the context of Christianity and Bahai'ism, the term "personal god" also refers to the incarnation of God as a person.

  4. Generic you - Wikipedia

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    In Russian, the second person is used for some impersonal constructions.Sometimes with the second-person singular pronoun ты, but often in the pronoun-dropped form.An example is the proverb за двумя зайцами погонишься, ни одного не поймаешь with the literal meaning "if you chase after two hares, you will not catch even one", or figuratively, "a bird ...

  5. Grammatical gender - Wikipedia

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    impersonal: dobre sery ("good cheeses"; nominative and accusative); dobrych serów (genitive only) A few nouns have both personal and impersonal forms, depending on meaning (for example, klient may behave as an impersonal noun when it refers to a client in the computing sense).

  6. One (pronoun) - Wikipedia

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    It is sometimes called an impersonal pronoun. It is more or less equivalent to the Scots " a body ", the French pronoun on , the German / Scandinavian man , and the Spanish uno . It can take the possessive form one's and the reflexive form oneself , or it can adopt those forms from the generic he with his and himself .

  7. Impersonality - Wikipedia

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    Impersonal passive voice, a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb to zero; Impersonal verb, a verb that cannot take a true subject; Impersonal (grammar), a grammatical gender in languages such as Sumerian and Slavic languages; Impersonal pronoun, a descriptor of a pronoun set, referred as one/one's/oneself in English

  8. Social information processing (theory) - Wikipedia

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    In the impersonal phase, due to the lack of nonverbal cues, CMC is believed to be more task-oriented than traditional face-to-face communication. Since the content is not influenced by social and emotional influence, it can avoid overly personal interpersonal interaction, promote rationality by providing essential discipline, facilitate the ...

  9. Proxemics - Wikipedia

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    In an impersonal, crowded situation, eye contact tends to be avoided. Even in a crowded place, preserving personal space is important, and intimate and sexual contact, such as frotteurism and groping, is unacceptable physical contact. A person's personal space is carried with them everywhere they go. It is the most inviolate form of territory. [7]