#Yu tu in english pdf

Bosses used to be able to address underlings with tú but this is now considered pretty ugly. When dealing with those outside of your company in business contexts you’ll definitely use tú. In business: Within your company, follow the corporate culture.

In general, you should use usted in all legal, bureaucratic and administrative situations. In most jurisdictions that would be a crazy thing to do.

Bureaucratic situations: I’ve personally addressed the Spanish taxman with tú, but I was in Catalonia (see “Variations” below).

Adults will probably address you with tú, but nobody said life is fair, as the saying/offhand excuse for oppression of the young goes.

Older people: If you’re a child or a teenager addressing an adult, use usted until you’ve been invited to do otherwise.

In arts organizations or non-profits you’re more likely to use tú with everyone, whereas in a bank, usted.

Work colleagues whom you know well: This one depends strongly on company culture.

Insults: If you’re cursing someone out in the street for driving his car in a bike lane, it would be strange to use usted.

However, people who insist on usted in such cases aren’t really worth getting to know further, in my very personal opinion. If you’re not sure, ask (see below, “when you’re not sure”). It can be a bit more delicate for people who you’ve just been introduced to, friends of friends and that sort of thing. Likewise for people who you’re just social with.

Friends/family: People who you’re close to are addressed with tú.

Those who, like me, aged out of our mid-twenties in a Spanish-speaking land, remember the horror of the first few times we were addressed in the formal second person by some 18-year-old.

Fellow young people: If you’re a teenager or an early twenty-something, use tú in pretty much any situation where you’re speaking to people your age.

No matter the situation, if you’re addressing children or, for some reason, speaking Spanish with animals, you should use tú.

Children and animals: This is a pretty easy rule.

When to Use the Informal Register in Spanish In Spanish, this shift happens with the second-person (you), as follows: We don’t say “she praised he” because we have a different object pronoun for the third person: “him.” Vos is sometimes also seen as a formal second-person pronoun in old books, so you should know this to recognize it-but you’ll never actually want to use it in that way.Įach subject pronoun also has a different corresponding object pronoun, just like the English third-person: In certain parts of South America, vos is standard instead of or in addition to tú. Ustedes is used for the plural “you” in all cases. Latin America is the same, except that vosotros typically isn’t used. The plural forms are vosotros/vosotras(informal men or mixed groups/a group of all women) and ustedes(formal, group). In Spain, the singular second-person subject pronouns are tú(informal “you,” one person) and usted(formal “you,” one person). (Download) An Intro to Spanish Second-person Pronouns

#Yu tu in english pdf

This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy. Pay attention as you go, and handle registers with care.An Intro to Spanish Second-person Pronouns.So today, we’re going to dive into these two and look at when to use them! There’s plenty of complexity surrounding these forms of you, usted and tú. If you hail from a language without formal and informal forms of you (like modern English), you’re probably perturbed by having to navigate complex distinctions of friendship and respect in just about every Spanish sentence. Usted: Navigating the Vexing Distinctions of Formality in Spanish