From: draqonfayir@juno.com
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 04:26:12 EST
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:11:07 +0100 (BST)
=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= <ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk>
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!"
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