Timeline for Why isn't plural ihr used for Formal instead of Sie?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 8:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 7, 2016 at 7:34 | comment | added | user21173 | Yes, essentially, as the transition shows, third person (er/sie) is even more polite than ihr, so it became established. | |
| May 7, 2016 at 7:33 | comment | added | Yordan Grigorov | Very well explained! I like that germans always try to be polite. The answer has something to do with addressing with "Er/Sie" as I guessed. | |
| May 7, 2016 at 7:29 | vote | accept | Yordan Grigorov | ||
| May 5, 2016 at 20:51 | comment | added | user21173 | @tofro in that form I know it from upper and lower Bavarian, but in upper Franconian it seemed to be the formal form of address - even among people who knew each other but were still using formal address with each other. It's been quite a while, though. | |
| May 5, 2016 at 19:35 | comment | added | tofro | On your last note: That ("Ihr") would typically be used to evade the decision on whether to address someone as "Sie" or "Du" and sometimes is an indirect hint to tell them. | |
| May 5, 2016 at 2:39 | history | edited | user21173 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 5, 2016 at 1:51 | comment | added | Eunice | I would vote for an English translation of this German text-piece. | |
| May 4, 2016 at 22:56 | history | answered | user21173 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |