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The usage of Tú/Vos and Usted depends on a number of factors, such as the number of people with whom the speaker is talking, the formality or informality of the relationship between the speaker and the other person, the age difference between them, and the regional variation of Spanish. [2] Using the usted form to address someone implies that ...
Usted expresses distance and respect; tú corresponds to an intermediate level of familiarity, but not deep trust; vos is the pronoun of maximum familiarity and solidarity. Pronominal tú is frequent with verbal voseo. [2] Honduras – three-tiered system is used to indicate the degree of respect or familiarity: usted, tú, vos.
usted (el otro usted: for informal, horizontal communication in Costa Rica and parts of Colombia) usted (most common) tú (in Cuba and Puerto Rico) vos, usía and vuecencia/vuecelencia (literary use) ustedes (the Americas) vosotros masc. and vosotras fem. (Peninsular Spain, Equatorial Guinea, Philippines) [40] ustedes. vosotros, vosotras ...
The form vós, used instead of tu to address someone respectfully, follows the same concordance rules as the French vous (verbs in second person plural, adjectives in singular), and vostè follows the same concordance rules as the Spanish usted (verbs in third person).
Spanish pronouns in some ways work quite differently from their English counterparts. Subject pronouns are often omitted, and object pronouns come in clitic and non-clitic forms. When used as clitics, object pronouns can appear as proclitics that come before the verb or as enclitics attached to the end of the verb in different linguistic ...
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A peculiarity occurs in the Altiplano Cundiboyacense and among some speakers in Bogotá: usted is replaced by sumercé for formal situations (it is relatively easy to identify a Boyacense by his/her use of this pronoun). Sumercé comes from su merced ('your mercy'). In parts of Spain, a child used to use not tú but usted to address a parent ...