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1 Only in countries with voseo; Ladino has vos as the formal form, instead of usted. 2 Primarily in Spain; elsewhere, ustedes is used in the plural regardless of the level of formality. 3 Reflexive. Usted may be abbreviated as Ud. or Vd. A disused equivalent of vuestro(s) / vuestra(s) is voso(s) / vosa(s). [1]
2 Primarily in Spain; other countries use ustedes as the plural regardless of level of formality. A disused equivalent of vuestro(s)/vuestra(s) is voso(s)/vosa(s). [1] Note: Usted and ustedes are grammatically third person even though they are
The T–V distinction is the contextual use of different pronouns that exists in some languages and serves to convey formality or familiarity. Its name comes from the Latin pronouns tu and vos. The distinction takes a number of forms and indicates varying levels of politeness, familiarity, courtesy, age or even insult toward the addressee.
The formal second-person pronouns (usted, ustedes) take third-person verb forms. The second-person familiar plural is expressed in most of Spain with the pronoun vosotros and its characteristic verb forms (e.g., coméis 'you eat'), while in Latin American Spanish it merges with the formal second-person plural (e.g., ustedes comen).
Voseo can also be found in the context of using verb conjugations for vos with tú as the subject pronoun (verbal voseo). [1] In all regions with voseo, the corresponding unstressed object pronoun is te and the corresponding possessive is tu/tuyo. [2]
In Modern Spanish, however, not all possessive determiners change to reflect the gender of the possessee, as is the case for mi, tu, and su, e.g. mi hijo y mi hija ("my son and my daughter"). In the first and second person plural forms-- nuestra/nuestro and vuestra/vuestro —possessive determiners do mark gender inflection in the singular, e.g ...
The plural imperative uses the ustedes form (i. e. the third person plural subjunctive, as corresponding to ellos). As for the subjunctive forms of vos verbs, most speakers use the classical vos conjugation, employing the vosotros form minus the i in the final diphthong. However, some prefer to use the tú subjunctive forms like in Paraguay.
The re-use in some languages of one personal pronoun to indicate a second personal pronoun with formality or social distance – commonly a second person plural to signify second person singular formal – is known as the T–V distinction, from the Latin pronouns tu and vos.