T-form

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English

Alternative forms

T form

Etymology

From the first letter of the second-person singular pronoun in Romance languages; ultimately from Latin tu and Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Noun

T-form (plural T-forms)

(linguistics) A second-person pronoun used in informal situations, to address friends, family, and sometimes inferiors.
- 1996, Marco Jacquemet, Credibility in Court:
  Shifting his feet and still perplexed, he then asked me if I was a faculty researcher, using again the informal T-form.
- 2002, The Bible Translator:
  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.
- 2012, Marcel Bax, Dániel Z. Kádár, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness:
  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.

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “informal second-person pronoun”): V-form

Translations

informal second-person pronoun

Finnish: sinuttelumuoto

See also

thou

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