how to pronounce person

/ˈpɜːsən/

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person is pronounced in two syllables

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ɜː

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An example use of person in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… but you as a person are dead it just …”

meaning of person

A person is a human being.

person frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word person occurs in english on average 249.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics person can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that person can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;