One (pronoun)
English language, gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One is an English language, gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun that means, roughly, "a person". For purposes of verb agreement it is a third-person singular pronoun, though it sometimes appears with first- or second-person reference. 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.
Not to be confused with Onu (pronoun).
The pronoun one often has connotations of formality,[1] and is often avoided in favour of more colloquial alternatives such as generic you.