Spanish Ustedes

Spanish language
In the Spanish language there are different forms regarding second-person plural pronouns. 'Usted' (Ud.) was initially the written abbreviation of 'vuestra merced' (your grace). In Spain there are two forms — ustedes (formal) and vosotros (familiar). The pronoun vosotros is the plural form of tú in most of Spain, but in the Americas it is replaced with ustedes. It is notable that the use of ustedes for the informal plural 'you' in southern Spain does not follow the usual rule for pronoun–verb agreement; e.g., while the formal form for 'you go', ustedes van, uses the third-person plural form of the verb, in Cádiz or Seville the informal form is constructed as ustedes vais, using the second-person plural of the verb. In the Canary Islands, though, the usual pronoun–verb agreement is preserved in most cases. The 'ustedeo' is mainly used in Costa Rica and Colombia.

English language
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