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Meaning of tutoyer | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To address (someone) in French using the familiar second-person pronoun tu; to thou.

transitive

Equivalents

Français tutoyer

Examples

“As I had begged Goethe to tutoyer me, he sent me a message to say, I must really remain more than the two days I had named, otherwise he should never get into the way of doing so.”
“[…] Corporal Cornichon, walking straight up to the bar, "tutoyering" me all the time in the most horridly familiar manner, clapped me on the back, and asked me to take a glass of cognac with him.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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