[lojban-beginners] Re: personal pronouns

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Matt Arnold wrote:

> Is {do'o} a plural "you" like the Spanish "usted"? Or is it only to be used
> when some of those it refers to are not among the listener(s)?

"Usted" is the formal singular you.
Plural, both formal and informal in Latin America, is "ustedes".
In Spain they use "vosotros" for informal.

{do} can be used when speaking to more than one person.
{do'o} includes someone else not directly addressed, though
they could be present.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



	
		
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