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tutoyer

verb

Etymology

Borrowed from French tutoyer.

  1. borrowed from tutoyer

Definitions

  1. To address (someone) in French using the familiar second-person pronoun tu

    To address (someone) in French using the familiar second-person pronoun tu; to thou.

    • As I had begged Goethe to tutoyer me, he sent me a message to say, I must really remain more than the two days I had named, otherwise he should never get into the way of doing so.
    • […] Corporal Cornichon, walking straight up to the bar, "tutoyering" me all the time in the most horridly familiar manner, clapped me on the back, and asked me to take a glass of cognac with him.

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