T–V distinction
In sociolinguistics, a T–V distinction describes the situation wherein a language has second-person pronouns that distinguish varying levels of politeness, social distance, courtesy, familiarity, or insult toward the addressee.
T–V distinctionGrammatical personThouSlovene languageTurkish languagePronounGrammatical numberRomance languagesFamily nameHungarian languageFinnish languageYouHonorificHonorifics (linguistics)DeixisGeneric youAddresseeSwedish languageTurkish grammarIcelandic language
List of glossing abbreviationsThai royal and noble titlesIndexicalityRussian languagePersonal pronounList of linguistics topicsGujarati grammarHungarian noun phraseRussian grammarOromo languageStandard MandarinProxemicsTigrinya grammarColloquial Welsh morphologyShetlandicWePluractionalityLiterary Welsh morphologyScottish Gaelic grammarFrench personal pronouns





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