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Did English ever have a formal version of "you"?

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Did English ever have a formal version of "you"?

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Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 11 months ago

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Off the top of my head, Danish "De" (practically never used), German "Sie", Chinese "您", French "vous", Spanish "usted" are formal ways of addressing

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“You” is the formal version.

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