Translation
person; human being
Examples
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He is a very good person.
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I saw two people there.
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Every person ought to know the truth.
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Many people speak our language.
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She is the tallest person I have seen.
is a human being of any sex, which is why it is the safe default where English hedges between man and person. The endings do the rest of the work: people, as an object, as a plural object. From the same root come (human), (humankind, with the collective --) and o (humanity as a quality).
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