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In Portuguese and German there are still the formal and informal cases: Formal : Você, Informal: Tu The same thing in German: Formal : Sie, Informal: Du I a
by rcruzeiro 13y ago
In Portuguese and German there are still the formal and informal cases:
Formal : Você,
Informal: Tu
The same thing in German:
Formal : Sie,
Informal: Du
I am not a linguistics guy but I think that Thou, Du, Tu have all the same origin as they sound so similar.
- mixmastamyk 13y agoThe Roman empire spread latin far and wide.
- maaku 13y agoyes, that completely explains a phenomenon that arose in the early middle ages.
- digisign 13y agoMore helpful, less of an ass, please.
- davidw 13y ago> I think that Thou, Du, Tu have all the same origin as they sound so similar. I think they're all Indo-European in origin, not a result of the Roman empire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
- cesarbs 13y agoBut in the south of Brazil (RS) we just address everyone as "tu" :) Some Brazilians from other states seem to find that rude sometimes.
- rcruzeiro 13y agoThe "cariocas" I think, also use "tu" but they won't conjugate the verbs correctly. They say things like "Tu vai ao..." instead of "Tu vais ao..." or simply "Vais ao...". For me, hearing something like "Tu vai" is like being slapped in the ear ;)