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<<No, English has a lot:
You Thou Ye Y'all Youse Yourself Tha>> No. "Thou" translates as "thou", "ye" as "ye", etc. So there is only "you".
"2a singolare tu (te/ti funzione complemento tonica/atona)
2a plurale voi (vi/ve funzione complemento tonica/atona)" You forgot "lei" e "la" in the polite form.
<<No. "Thou" translates as "thou", "ye" as "ye", etc. So there is only "you".>>
What are you on?
Romanian:
2st. pers. sg. - 5 (basic) words: tu tine (stressed); te, te-, -te, -te- (clitic/unstressed) ţie (stressed); îţi, -ţi, ţi-, -ţi- (clitic/unstressed) 2nd. pers. pl. - 4 (basic) words: voi vă, -vă, vă-, v-, -v- (clitic/unstressed) vouă (stressed); vi, -vi- (clitic/unstressed) pronouns of politeness - 4 words: dumneata mata dumitale dumneavoastră Source: http://www.seelrc.org:8080/grammar/pdf/stand_alone_romanian.pdf _______________________________________________________ Serbo-Croatian: 2st. pers. sg. - 5 words: ti te tebe tebi tobom 2nd. pers. pl. - 4 words: vi vas vama vam Source: http://www.seelrc.org:8080/grammar/mainframe.jsp?nLanguageID=1 ________________________________________________________ Slovenian: 2st. pers. sg. - 5 words: tî tébe tébi tebój tâbo 2nd. pers. pl. - 5 words: vî ve vas vam vâmi 2nd. pers. dual - 4 words: vîdva vedve vaju vama Source: http://www.seelrc.org:8080/grammar/mainframe.jsp?nLanguageID=8 ________________________________________________________
你: second person single, for almost everyone
您: formal second person single, used less than French vous and German Sie, maybe for customers, elderly people, strangers... 妳: female second person single, rarely used, maybe because it sounds superfluous; I haven't heard of a plural one 你們: second person plural; I haven't heard of a formal one We have some more, like 爾, 汝, but I'm not even sure for my utter lack of knowledge of the classical language. No gender, no case, no (strict) number, no tense, no headaches. We Chinese like baby talk.
Vietnamese doesn't have one word for "you." Instead, we use refer to the person with whom we are speaking by their relation to us. For example, if I were speaking to my sister, I'd call her "sister." And you see, this leaves us at an almost infinite number of ways to say "you."
The Spanish list looks bigger than what it is really, cause whatever real Spanish dialect uses only a subset of those pronouns. Anyway, it is probably the longer of all languages.
Iberian Spanish: 16 (vos removed) Mexican Spanish: 13 (vos, os, vosotros and vosotras removed) Argentinian Spanish: 14 (os, vosotros and vosotras removed)
>>Anyway, it is probably the longer of all languages.
Says who? How many languages have you studied? A list longer than Spanish one: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~spena/Chukchee/chapter3.html >2nd sg gyt gy-nan gyn-yk gyn-yka-jpy gyn-yka-gty gyn-yky gyn-yke-gjit ge-gyn-yke ga-gyn-ygma gyn-yku >2nd pl Turi tor-gynan tur-yk tor-yka-jpy tor-yka-gty tor-yky tur-yke-gjit ge-tur-yke ga-tor-ygma tur-yku 20 words. 20 > 16
Texas English has three "you" "ya'll" and "all ya'll" but if you count possessives that's like 4 or 5 more.
English:
you thou tha thee thyself thee sen thysen ye yourself yourselves y'all youse (you'se, yous, youze) yins, you-uns you all one your (as in your Highness, your Honor) ya, yer you guys you two
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