And what language and region is it?

I’ve noticed my language teacher uses the informal you in one language and the formal one in the other.

  • hraegsvelmir@ani.social
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    8 hours ago

    I would think this needs the regional classification. There are big chunks of Brazil where tu may as well not exist as a pronoun. I also wouldn’t necessarily say that addressing someone by their name would be universally taken as a sign of respect. Plenty of people will just use names like that in informal speech, like “Você não vai acreditar o que falou o João ontem.”