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  2. Clusivity - Wikipedia

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    Clusivity. In linguistics, clusivity[1] is a grammatical distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person pronouns and verbal morphology, also called inclusive "we" and exclusive "we". Inclusive "we" specifically includes the addressee, while exclusive "we" specifically excludes the addressee; in other words, two (or more) words that ...

  3. Romance plurals - Wikipedia

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    Romance plurals. The plurals of the Romance languages, and their historical origin and development, are an important area of study in comparative and historical Romance linguistics. There are two general categories that Romance languages fall into based on the way they form plurals. Languages of the first category, belonging to Western Romance ...

  4. T–V distinction - Wikipedia

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    T–V distinction. 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 ...

  5. T–V distinction in the world's languages - Wikipedia

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    The T–V distinction (from the Latin pronouns tu and vos) is a contrast, within one language, between various forms of addressing one's conversation partner or partners. This may be specialized for varying levels of politeness, social distance, courtesy, familiarity, age or insult toward the addressee. The distinction occurs in a number of the ...

  6. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    What do you think you are doing? / ˈ d oʊ / noun To warm-up, the singer sang the scale from do. does / ˈ d oʊ z / noun pl. of doe / ˈ d ʌ z / verb form of do / ˈ d uː z / noun one spelling of the plural of do as a noun [citation needed] - e.g. hair does: dogged / ˈ d ɒ ɡ d / verb

  7. Romance linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Romance languages have a number of shared features across all languages: Romance languages are moderately inflecting, i.e. there is a moderately complex system of affixes (primarily suffixes) that are attached to word roots to convey grammatical information such as number, gender, person, tense, etc. Verbs have much more inflection than nouns.

  8. You - Wikipedia

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    You. Look up you, yours, your, yourself, or yourselves in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In Modern English, the word " you " is the second-person pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative case, but in most [citation needed] modern dialects is used for all cases and numbers.

  9. Italian grammar - Wikipedia

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    Formal Loro is variable for gender: Li conosco ('I know you [masc. pl.]') vs. Le conosco ('I know you [fem. pl.]'), etc. The formal plural is very rarely used in modern Italian; the unmarked form is widely used instead. [19] For example: Gino, Lei è un bravo ingegnere. Marco, Lei è un bravo architetto. Insieme, voi sarete una gran bella squadra.