T-form

plural T-forms · alternative T form

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

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

   1996, Marco Jacquemet, Credibility in Court

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   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.

   2002, The Bible Translator

   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.

   2012, Marcel Bax, Dániel Z. Kádár, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness