Is the polite "you" still used in your language?

Yes, but only to strangers.

that's a tomato soup in spanish

Tы чё eбaнyтый?

You mean gazpacho or what?

In Dutch we have
u = formal
jij = confrontational
je = informal, friendly

(and jou, which depends on the context I guess)

If you use the formal u, then people usually say you can call them the informal je, because the formal u makes them feel old.

doesn't exist in arabic

sorry using the poilte you - voi (plural) for a single person is fascist in shitaly we use the polite she.-lei

No though I believe Scottish Gaelic still uses it

Hy и гдe жe ты этo иcпoльзyeшь? B мaгaзинe к пpoдaвцy oбpaщaeшьcя? Oфициaнт тeбя зoвёт гocпoдинлм? Ha paбoтe шeфa тoжe зoвёшь гocпoдинoм?
Хyли вылeз, пидop, вooбщe?

devochka/devchonka etc.
i don't have the ability to use cyrillic keyboard, but you do use different words for mister/miss/missis etc.

that's why all arab-speaking countries are barbaric hellholes

yall arab haters are so uncreative with your insults. the arabic language is objectively more superior than most popular languages

Devooshka, muzhchina, zhenshina, lol, maybe never thought in this way.
But i think it is not the same. Ms/mrs it means family status. In russian there is no recourse to women that described is she married or not.

In the Netherlands people generally dislike being addressed with the formal you.
And they try to stop you from saying it as quickly as possible. They will literally say you shouldn't call them that.

But at the same time it's often etiquette to start formerly, especially in business with strangers.

Go on then, name one Arabic word.
I'll wait.

>the arabic language is objectively more superior than most popular languages
no language is superior to any other.
except sanskrit.

>In the Netherlands people generally dislike being addressed with the formal you.

Same here. I don't get it.
>use formal with professor
>"oh, please don't do that, it makes me feel old haha"

1. You are old
2. You are my fucking professor

>"oh, please don't do that, it makes me feel old haha"
They say the exact same thing here.

but still there is a big difference is someone calls you just zhena or some stupid slang like tjolka is there not? you have a very rich language in describing all the possible situations

tf? lol

Yes.

No but since learning German I feel awkward using "you" formally even though "Sie" doesn't really come to my mind in German

Yes, thats why all this polite "you" is remnants of feudal age and should be abandoned.

But Spain and the Netherlands are monarchies. We're still in the feudal age.

most people don't even know what that is and only degenerate hillbillies in the south still say sir/ma'am

Technically you have to address His Majesty the King with "Royal Highness".
But King said you can address him however you want.

Yes, "wife" describes family status, but it is not the same as mrs.
For example, if you write a letter you start from "dear mrs slut". In russian it woun't be started from "dear wife slut".

I know, but is "lei" actually used in Italy? Even Italian banks are using "tu" on their websites...

The former queen always wanted to be address with Majesty.

>Arabic language
>superior

Explain why.

Make some revolution, kill some royals.

Sure, if you want to get tortured to death by an angry mob.

Fun fact: this is how the murderer of William of Orange was executed.

>At his trial, Gérard was sentenced to be brutally – even by the standards of that time – killed. The magistrates decreed that the right hand of Gérard should be burned off with a red-hot iron, that his flesh should be torn from his bones with pincers in six different places, that he should be quartered and disemboweled alive, his heart torn from his bosom and flung in his face, and that, finally, his head should be taken off.[1]
>Gérard's torture was also very brutal. On the first night of his imprisonment Gérard was hung on a pole and lashed with a whip. After that his wounds were smeared with honey and a goat was brought to lick the honey off his skin with his rough tongue. The goat however refused to touch the body of the sentenced. After this and other tortures he was left to pass the night with his hands and feet bound together, like a ball, so sleep would be difficult. During the following three days, he was repeatedly mocked and hung on a pole with his hands tied behind his back. Then a weight of 300 metric pounds (150 kg) was attached to each of his big toes for half an hour. After this half hour Gérard was fitted with shoes made of well-oiled, uncured dog skin; the shoes were two fingers shorter than his feet. In this state he was put before a fire. When the shoes warmed up, they contracted, crushing the feet inside them to stumps. When the shoes were removed, his half-broiled skin was torn off. After his feet were damaged, his armpits were branded. After that he was dressed in a shirt soaked in alcohol. Then burning bacon fat was poured over him and sharp nails were stuck between the flesh and the nails of his hands and feet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar_Gérard#Trial,_torture,_and_execution

When revolution is started there is no virgins, everyone become chads. Remember it.

>The goat however refused to touch the body of the sentenced.

Based goat desu

8% of the Netherlands wants a republic. He has more support than president Putin.

Is it becouse the king is popular or nobody gives a shit about is it king or president?

Many people do the same here.
But it is also a good thing to let people you don't like them...

>have that one colleague in another team we interact a lot with
>just an annoying cunt
>even after years I still write with him in the polite version but do not even with his boss or the other people in his team

It's always good mails when you write his female boss and him a mail like "Hi Lisa, Hello Mr. Dickhead", ...

William of Orange liberated the Netherlands from Spain. So the King is descendant from a war hero.
The Kings birthday is our national holiday. Our national color is the Orange, the name of the King. Our national anthem sings about William of Orange (and even spells his name). He himself is the symbol of our nation.

Not to mention all politicians, judges, soldiers and so on swear allegiance to him. And he appoints all ministers, kings, prosecutors, mayors and has to sign all laws. He's also the head of the supreme court for administrative law. And so on.

Sports day in our schools is are called The Kings games these days.

Technically the word “You” is the polite way of saying ‘you’ in (pre-modern) English, also it originally implied a 2nd-person-plural.
The English thought that “might as well be polite all the time, fuck it” and “thou” became redundant.
You cognates with German ihr and Dutch jij
>hear yee, hear yee

No because boomers sperg out if you say it.

Of course, we're not barbarians

the polite "you" is the normal "you" in latinamerica apparently
we use "tú" and for serious situations / respect "usted"
it used to be so that you only says "tú" to people you knew personally and had confidence with, but now "usted" is pretty rare except when speaking with police or someone important like that

I understand now, traditions everywhere so much, that it sounds sick to change something.

>i'm going to start a rebellion....
eehhhhhhh
youtube.com/watch?v=2dHs4W8P0QU
youtube.com/watch?v=BYhzJ6OFzPw

>surely our politicians will aid me
Video is our politicians..
youtube.com/watch?v=bjyOsNyFcGM

I found the two traitor on video. He's standing next to the King!!!!

youtube.com/watch?v=Yr6zZ0WRED8

That's not really a thing in Potuguese, our polite “you” usually is the treatment pronoun “o senhor/senhora/senhorita”, which literally means “the mister/mistress/miss”.

The funny thing is his grandmother also owned 25% of Shell. And some other major Dutch corporations, including large parts of the Rotterdam harbor.

But nobody knows what the King owns now, because he's above the law and doesn't pay taxes.

In Dutch the formal version of you is u.

u havin a laff

Well, being king in your country is profitable. No palace coups, no rebellions, no revolutions, comfy laws. I guess all kings were dreaming about 21 century.

We sometimes do have incidents though. A few years ago our parliament wanted to pick the ministers for a new government. But they forgot to consult the Queen about her opinion. So the Queen refused to appoint those ministers and said they follow proper procedure, consult her and then look for some new ministers. Which caused some drama.

Eventually a slightly changed, but mostly the same, group of ministers were appointed.

Kinda weird here. We use it both informally and formally, you can tell by the context. I use the same word speaking to my sister as I do to an employee at a bank.

It is used regularly. Websites tend to avoid it because they want to look hip and cool, but it's actually quite rude IMO

yes, it is used mainly for people you dont know (if you ask something to someone on the street, like how to get to same place), or for people with authority over you like professors, bosses etc

Didn't you use "usted" for everyone? I thought the real distinction was just a spaniard thing.

I speak frisian and english thy thou and you that stuff sounds the same as in frisian.