See V-form on Wiktionary
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{ "antonyms": [ { "sense": "antonym(s) of “formal second-person pronoun”", "word": "T-form" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "roa", "3": "-" }, "expansion": "Romance", "name": "uder" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "la", "3": "vos" }, "expansion": "Latin vos", "name": "uder" } ], "etymology_text": "From the first letter of the second-person plural pronoun in Romance languages; ultimately from Latin vos.", "forms": [ { "form": "V-forms", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "V-form (plural V-forms)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms derived from Latin", "English terms derived from Romance languages", "English terms with quotations", "English undefined derivations", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "Terms with Finnish translations", "en:Linguistics" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2002, The Bible Translator:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2003, Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker, editors, Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems:", "text": "But cross-linguistically one finds that plural pronouns are predominant for the V-form. Again, there may well be a universal here that a plural address implies respect and that the singular pronoun implies a personal, i.e. intimate type of address.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, Marcel Bax, Dániel Z. Kádár, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2014, Challenging the Monolingual Mindset:", "text": "... in March 2010 Ikea's Swiss website in German, French and Italian used the V-form except when addressing prospective job applicants.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A second-person pronoun used in formal situations, to address unfamiliar people and superiors." ], "links": [ [ "linguistics", "linguistics" ], [ "pronoun", "pronoun" ], [ "formal", "formal" ], [ "unfamiliar", "unfamiliar" ], [ "superior", "superior" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(linguistics) A second-person pronoun used in formal situations, to address unfamiliar people and superiors." ], "topics": [ "human-sciences", "linguistics", "sciences" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "V form" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "formal second-person pronoun", "word": "teitittelymuoto" } ], "word": "V-form" }
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