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

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    Ti (equivalent to tu), on the other hand, is considered vulgar, and its use can be taken as an expression of an aggressive attitude towards the person addressed. This influence from Walloon affects the usage of tu and vous in the French spoken in Belgium, though more so among people accustomed to using Walloon as their everyday language (a tiny ...

  3. Italian grammar - Wikipedia

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    Italian grammar is the body of rules describing the properties of the Italian language. ... tu [h] — di te ti te a te ti te — — con te 3rd m. egli, esso, [i ...

  4. T–V distinction - Wikipedia

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    In Italian, (Signor) Vincenzo Rossi can be addressed with the tu (familiar) form or the Lei (formal) one, but complete addresses range from Tu, Vincenzo (peer to peer or family) and Tu, Rossi (teacher to high-school student, as stated above) to Lei, signor Vincenzo (live-in servant to master or master's son) and Lei, Rossi (senior staff member ...

  5. Italian conjugation - Wikipedia

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    Italian verbs have a high degree of inflection, the majority of which follows one of three common patterns of conjugation. Italian conjugation is affected by mood, person, tense, number, aspect and occasionally gender. The three classes of verbs (patterns of conjugation) are distinguished by the endings of the infinitive form of the verb:

  6. Venetian grammar - Wikipedia

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    The clitic subject pronoun (te, el/ła, i/łe) is used with the 2nd and 3rd person singular, and with the 3rd person plural.This feature may have arisen as a compensation for the fact that the 2nd- and 3rd-person inflections for most verbs, which are still distinct in Italian and many other Romance languages, are identical in Venetian.

  7. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and languages of Italy, such as the Tuscan dialect, which had a very strong influence in modern standard Italian, and is widely known to be based on Florentine language. [1]

  8. Italian orthography - Wikipedia

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    The base alphabet consists of 21 letters: five vowels (A, E, I, O, U) and 16 consonants. The letters J, K, W, X and Y are not part of the proper alphabet, but appear in words of ancient Greek origin (e.g. Xilofono), loanwords (e.g. "weekend"), [2] foreign names (e.g. John), scientific terms (e.g. km) and in a handful of native words—such as the names Kalsa, Jesolo, Bettino Craxi, and Cybo ...

  9. Florentine dialect - Wikipedia

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    Italian [3] English [3] io sòn io sono I am te tu sei tu sei you are egli l'è egli è he/she/it is noi s'è/semo noi siamo we are voi vù siete voi siete you are essi l'enno essi sono they are io c'ho io ho I have te tu c'ha tu hai you have egli c'ha egli ha he/she/it has noi ci s'ha noi abbiamo we have voi vù c'avete voi avete you have