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Are there languages in which the word for "you" is gendered?

Question #149351. Asked by gmackematix.
Last updated May 26 2023.
Originally posted May 19 2023 7:49 PM.

patrickk
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patrickk
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I can't find any examples of separate gendered words for the second person "you". However, a similar phenomenon exists in Basque, where the verb changes to agree with the gender of the person being referred to as "you". An example is the phrase "you have it", which translates to "hik dun" if speaking to a female, but to "hik duk" instead if speaking to a male.

This is an example of Allocutive Agreement, where a person's gender is implied by the grammatical form of a phrase without necessarily being directly being stated.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocutive_agreement

May 26 2023, 11:19 PM
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