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For example, German teachers used to use the former construct with upper-secondary students, while Italian teachers typically use the latter (switching to a full V-form with university students). This can lead to constructions denoting an intermediate level of formality in T–V-distinct languages that sound awkward to English-speakers.
Like his contemporaries, William Shakespeare uses thou both in the intimate, French-style sense, and also to emphasize differences of rank, but he is by no means consistent in using the word, and friends and lovers sometimes call each other ye or you as often as they call each other thou, [34] [35] [36] sometimes in ways that can be analysed ...
This poem was written by Sankardeva just after learning the Swarabarnas and the Byanjanbarnas. [3] Any vowel sound (except অ, i.e. o) following a consonant sound in a word in Assamese is denoted by a swarasihna, but it goes that since Sankardeva had not learnt them by the time of writing Karatala Kamala, the poem contains no swarasihnas. [4]
Old Dutch did not appear to have a T–V distinction. Thu was used as the second-person singular, and gi as the second-person plural. In early Middle Dutch, influenced by Old French usage, the original plural pronoun gi (or ji in the north) came to be used as a respectful singular pronoun, creating a T–V distinction.
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There is no formal (as opposed to familiar) 2nd person singular pronoun in the KJV. "You" in the KJV is always plural and always objective case, never nominative case. You is not the formal equivalent of a familiar thou in the KJV. In discussing thou, thee, ye, you, case needs to be kept clear. And BTW, the KJV differs from Shakespeare with ...