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On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:11:07 +0100 (BST) =?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= <ijzeren_jan@hidden.email> writes: > If I am not completely mistaken, German "Sie" is not the feminine > singular > pronoun, but the MFN plural. That is also why the following verb > always is in > the third person plural. > Before "Sie" came in use, "ihr" (2rd person plural) was used as a > polite form, exactly the same as French "vous" and Russian "wy". > Jan - Yiddish uses |ir| as the polite equivalent of |du|. -Stephen (Steg) "dos iz nit der ?teg!" ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!