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Re: [romanceconlang] Usted



Mermaid Productions wrote:
Must be an Iberian thing, as Portuguese and Catalan also have
similar second-but-really-third person formal pronouns with the
same origin (você and vostè).

Let's not forget German `Sie' and Italian `Lei', both literally `She', presumably also meaning Your Abstraction (a feminine noun).

French is locally odd in lacking such a form.

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