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In polite speech, the second-person singular forms may be replaced by polite forms. While the use of these forms is in decline, they still remain fairly common when addressing unfamiliar older people.
Second-person polite forms are largely the same as the second-person plural forms, including the use of the pronoun te (which is capitalized to Te in more formal written contexts), of second-person plural verb forms and of the second-person plural possessive suffix (-nne).
One major difference is that in compound tenses, like the perfect and the pluperfect, the participle remains in the singular in the polite form:
- te olette ollut (second-person polite) ― you have been
- te olette olleet (second-person plural) ― you have been