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What is the difference between person and people ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between person and people ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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person refers to one while people is many
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Person is one person, and people are more than one person. 2 people, 3 people and so forth.
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person is singular means one individual. people means a group of human beings.
eg. this person is nice.
eg. These people are nice.
on a side note, persons is used in legal matters as it is regarded as a very formal word.
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Person is referring to 1 (사람 한 명) people is referring to more than one (사람 두 명, 사람 세 명....)
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Person refers to one. People refer to multiple
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I am one person. But we are a group of people.
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Person: 1 human being or individual (사람 한 명)
example- Lia is a nice person.
People: more than one human being, small or big groups of humans.
(사람들)
example- There are so many people at the mall today.
*I hope this helps! ^^
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a person is (1) you are a person not people and when you say people its plural meaning more than 1 person so.
we are people (more than 1 person)
you are a person (less than 2 people )
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