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The familiar and singular form is used when speaking to God in French (in Protestantism both in past and present, in Catholicism since the post–Vatican II reforms), German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Scottish Gaelic and many others (all of which maintain the use of an "informal" singular form of the second person in modern speech).
The simple present, present simple or present indefinite is one of the verb forms associated with the present tense in modern English. It is commonly referred to as a tense, although it also encodes certain information about aspect in addition to the present time. The simple present is the most commonly used verb form in English, accounting for ...
I am (first-person singular) you are/thou art (second-person singular) he, she, one, it is (third-person singular) we are (first-person plural) you are/ye are (second-person plural) they are (third-person plural, and third-person singular) Other verbs in English take the suffix -s to mark the present tense third person singular, excluding ...
The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...
A study of 17th-century American English found the form be used for the 1st and 3rd person plural present; [15]: 192–193 was for the 3rd person plural preterite; [15]: 194 art and are for the 2nd person singular present; wast and wert for the 2nd person singular preterite; [15]: 193 and dost and hast (2nd person) and doth and hath (3rd person ...
Herlda Senhouse, formerly the second oldest person in the US, died this week at the age of 113. She thought lifestyle factors could have contributed to her longevity as well as her genes.
The present singular is formed from the original singular preterite stem and the present plural from the original plural preterite stem. As a result of this history, the first-person singular and third-person singular are the same in the present. Few preterite present appear in the Old Saxon corpus, and some are not attested in all forms.
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