tutoyer en · VERB
Etymology
Borrowed from French tutoyer.
Meanings
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(transitive) To address (someone) in French using the familiar second-person pronoun tu; to thou.
[…] Corporal Cornichon, walking straight up to the bar, "tutoyering" me all the time in the most horridly familiar manner, clapped me on the back, and asked me to take a glass of cognac with him.
1866, William Stamer, Recollections of a Life of Adventure, volume 1, page 83:As I had begged Goethe to tutoyer me, he sent me a message to say, I must really remain more than the two days I had named, otherwise he should never get into the way of doing so.
1862, The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 115, page 132:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tutoyering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| tutoyers | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| tutoyered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| tutoyered | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Relateds
thou tutoyer you · T-V distinction