T-form
nounEtymology From the first letter of the second-person singular pronoun in Romance languages; ultimately from Latin tu and Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A second-person pronoun used in informal situations, to address friends, family, and sometimes inferiors.
- Shifting his feet and still perplexed, he then asked me if I was a faculty researcher, using again the informal T-form.1996, Marco Jacquemet, Credibility in Court:
- In the Erzin dialect, children address their parents with the V-form; to use the T-form would show a lack of respect for parents.2002, The Bible Translator:
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- Typically, the informal pronominal address term (T-form) is the original second-person pronoun (Latin tu; Germanic du) and the polite or formal V-form is a plural form.2012, Marcel Bax, Dániel Z. Kádár, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: