T-form

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"Shifting his feet and still perplexed, he then asked me if I was a faculty researcher, using again the informal 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.

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