teititellä

teitti (dialectal variant of Te (“you (formal)”)) +‎ -tellä

• IPA^(key): /ˈtei̯titelːæˣ/,
• Rhymes: -elːæ
• Hyphenation^(key): tei‧ti‧tel‧lä

teititellä

1. (transitive, usually atelic) to you, to address with the polite V-form, to address someone (especially the elderly and people with higher social status) formally in the second-person (in languages in which such form is distinguishable).

   Ranskassa täytyy aina teititellä vieraita ihmisiä.

   In France one must always address strangers by using the formal "you".

• The equivalent in many English-speaking countries is to address a person by her/his last name (with or without her/his professional title).
• in Finnish there are three second-person personal pronouns: sinä (“informal singular”), te (“informal plural”) and Te (“formal singular and plural”)

• sinutella

• “teititellä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03