Organizing the message
Grammatical person
First, second and third person
Who is speaking, who is being spoken to, and who or what are they talking about?
personal ending
grammatical person
personal pronoun
Betydning
A language can show who is speaking, who is being addressed, and who or what is being talked about. This keeps track of people's roles in the conversation. Languages use separate words, word endings, or context, and some do not mark these roles on verbs. Participants covers who and what is in the scene; this block shows their relation to the current speaker and listener.
Slik kjenner du det igjen
Identify the current speaker and listener, then look for words or forms that distinguish them from the people or things being discussed.