And what language and region is it?

I’ve noticed my language teacher uses the informal you in one language and the formal one in the other.

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    11 hours ago

    In a weird twist, despite speaking Spanish, my particular dialect doesn’t have a formal you. We use usted for everyone. I joke that “usted es un malcriado puta de mierda” is a perfectly valid sentence

    I also know French and that one does have a formal you, but it also doubles as the plural you so it’s a bit more common. It also has two different forms of we