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T-form en · NOUN

Etymology

From the first letter of the second-person singular pronoun in Romance languages; ultimately from Latin tu and Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Meanings

1. A second-person pronoun used in informal situations, to address friends, family, and sometimes inferiors.
   • Shifting his feet and still perplexed, he then asked me if I was a faculty researcher, using again the informal T-form. 1996, Marco Jacquemet, Credibility in Court:
   • Typically, the informal pronominal address term (T-form) is the original second-person pronoun (Latin tu; Germanic du) and the polite or formal V-form is a plural form. 2012, Marcel Bax, Dániel Z. Kádár, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness:
   • In the Erzin dialect, children address their parents with the V-form; to use the T-form would show a lack of respect for parents. 2002, The Bible Translator:

Forms

Antonyms

V-form (antonym(s) of “informal second-person pronoun”)

Relateds

thou

Translations (1)

fi sinuttelumuoto (informal second-person pronoun)