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tutoy

tutoy verb: to address by the informal French pronoun tu (“you”).

Verb

tutoy (third-person singular simple present tutoys, present participle tutoying, simple past and past participle tutoyed)

  1. (transitive) To address by the informal French pronoun tu (“you”).
    Synonyms:
    tutoyer

Synonyms of tutoy

Forms of tutoy

third-person singular presenttutoys
present participletutoying
past participletutoyed
pasttutoyed
alternative formtutoie
alternative form (obsolete)tutay

Origin of tutoy

From French tutoyer.

Questions about tutoy

What does tutoy mean?
Tutoy means to address by the informal French pronoun tu (“you”).
What part of speech is tutoy?
Tutoy is a verb.
What is the past tense of tutoy?
The past tense of tutoy is tutoyed.

Words near tutoy in the dictionary

  1. tutory
  2. tutour
  3. tutours
  4. Tutova
  5. tutovka
  6. tutoy
  7. tutoyed
  8. tutoyer
  9. tutoyered
  10. tutoyering
  11. tutoyers

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