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Re: Spanish Question (with Expanded Politesse)

From:jogloran <exponent@...>
Date:Monday, January 14, 2002, 10:49
laokou <laokou@M...> 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".
>>
I know you're not asking, but if anyone's curious, in Italian the expressions are "dare del tu" and "dare del Lei" for informal and formal pronouns respectively. Imperative