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  2. French personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    French has a T-V distinction in the second person singular. That is, it uses two different sets of pronouns: tu and vous and their various forms. The usage of tu and vous depends on the kind of relationship (formal or informal) that exists between the speaker and the person with whom they are speaking and the age differences between these subjects. [1]

  3. T–V distinction - Wikipedia

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    The boundaries between formal and informal language differ from language to language, as well as within social groups of the speakers of a given language. In some circumstances, it is not unusual to call other people by first name and the respectful form, or last name and familiar form.

  4. French pronouns - Wikipedia

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    French, like English, uses relative pronouns to introduce relative clauses. The relative pronoun used depends on its grammatical role (such as subject or direct object) within the relative clause, as well as on the gender and number of the antecedent and whether the antecedent represents a person.

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

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    Old Dutch did not appear to have a T–V distinction. Thu was used as the second-person singular, and gi as the second-person plural. In early Middle Dutch, influenced by Old French usage, the original plural pronoun gi (or ji in the north) came to be used as a respectful singular pronoun, creating a T–V distinction.

  6. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    a class of women of ill repute; a fringe group or subculture. Fell out of use in the French language in the 19th century. Frenchmen still use une demi-mondaine to qualify a woman that lives (exclusively or partially) off the commerce of her charms but in a high-life style. double entendre

  7. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    French grammar is the set of rules by which the French language creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that of the other Romance languages . French is a moderately inflected language.

  8. Elision (French) - Wikipedia

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    Informal French [ edit ] Elision of the second-person singular subject pronoun tu , before the verbs beginning with a vowel or mute h (silent h), and of the particle of negation ne , is very common in informal speech, but is avoided in careful speech and never used in formal writing: [ citation needed ]

  9. You - Wikipedia

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    You can appear as a subject, object, determiner or predicative complement. [5] The reflexive form also appears as an adjunct. You occasionally appears as a modifier in a noun phrase. Subject: You're there; your being there; you paid for yourself to be there. Object: I saw you; I introduced her to you; You saw yourself.