Re: Spanish Question (with Expanded Politesse)

Yeah, It has a Vd. form. I, personally have never
heard of the word your looking for, but I must admit
im only a High Shcool spanish student.

FYI, the Vd. [Vosotros] is usually only used in Spain,
so many Spanish teachers don't even touch it.


--- laokou <laokou@...> wrote:
> Okay, now in French, you can express "use the 'tu'
> form" as "tutoyer" and
> "use the 'vous' form" as "vouvoyer". German has
> corresponding forms, "duzen"
> and "siezen". So I ask the Spanish teacher at my
> school (non-native) if
> Spanish has equivalent forms; she says "no". I'm not
> convinced. I look it up
> here at home and find "tutear".
>
> And so, is there a Spanish word for "use the 'Vd.'
> form"? Is there a word
> for "use the 'vosotros' form"? In German, is there a
> word for "use the 'ihr'
> form" ('ihren')?
>
> One gets the sense that the distinction is
> formal/informal as opposed to
> sing/pl (since we're chronicling the transition from
> "acquaintance" to
> "friend', so it wouldn't surprise me if verbs for
> "vosotros" and "ihr"
> didn't exist. Still, back in the day, we heard that
> if an elder said to a
> junior, "Let's duzen." (much like if the
> mother-in-law you addressed as
> 'Mrs. Smith' told you to call her 'Francine') , you
> went out and celebrated
> it with a drink (perhaps passé).
>
> Immediate question: does Spanish have that "Vd"
> form? How do other langs on
> the Continent treat this? How do conlangs cope?
>
> Kou

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