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I notice that in Italy now, people are more likely to "dare del tu" than used to be the case -- and, it seems to me, more likely than the French would be to "tutoyer" in a similar situation.
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No student had likely ever 'tutoyer'd' her before -- especially in such a patronizing manner!
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No student had likely ever 'tutoyer'd' her before-- especially in such a patronizing manner!
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I notice that in Italy now, people are more likely to "dare del tu" than used to be the case -- and, it seems to me, more likely than the French would be to "tutoyer" in a similar situation.
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They had been told not to 'tutoyer' each other, because they were getting too old for such familiarity, and it was he, and not she, who remembered this prohibition.
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-- [He used to 'tutoyer' me in this familiar manner until his return to Milan.] --
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Somehow, that seems to recall an old "Spanish for Beginners" textbook which bade me not bother with the "tutoyer" business as it would not be needed during my travels in Spain, unless
Nonsenseorship G. G. [Editor] Putnam 1915
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They had been told not to 'tutoyer' each other, because they were getting too old for such familiarity, and it was he, and not she, who remembered this prohibition.
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-- [He used to 'tutoyer' me in this familiar manner until his return to Milan.] --
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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-- [He used to 'tutoyer' me in this familiar manner until his return to Milan.] --
Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
sarra commented on the word tutoyer
To address someone as tu: someone younger than you, or whom you know well.
Compare vouvoyer.
May 14, 2008