Meaning of T-form | Babel Free

Definitions

A second-person pronoun used in informal situations, to address friends, family, and sometimes inferiors.

Equivalents

Examples

“Shifting his feet and still perplexed, he then asked me if I was a faculty researcher, using again the informal T-form.”

“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.”

“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.”

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