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T-form

T-form noun: a second-person pronoun used in informal situations, to address friends, family, and sometimes inferiors.

Noun

T-form (plural T-forms)

  1. A second-person pronoun used in informal situations, to address friends, family, and sometimes inferiors.
    • Shifting his feet and still perplexed, he then asked me if I was a faculty researcher, using again the informal T-form.1996, Marco Jacquemet, Credibility in Court
    • 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.2002, The Bible Translator

Antonyms of T-form

Forms of T-form

pluralT-forms
alternative formT form

Origin of T-form

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

Questions about T-form

What does T-form mean?
T-form means a second-person pronoun used in informal situations, to address friends, family, and sometimes inferiors.
What part of speech is T-form?
T-form is a noun.
What is the plural of T-form?
The plural of T-form is T-forms.

Words near T-form in the dictionary

  1. t-distributions
  2. t-DNA
  3. t-DNAs
  4. T-Dot
  5. T-dot oh
  6. T-form
  7. t-former
  8. t-formers
  9. T-forms
  10. t-girl
  11. t-girls

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