ABSTRACT

In the informal register, which you use when talking to someone whom you either know well and are close to, or with someone of lower status than yourself such as a child or a servant, you also have to distinguish whether the person(s) you are talking to is (are) a man, >V nan 'you are' (masculine and informal), a woman, >7F nas 'you are' (feminine and informal), or several people, men or women, T t^f* naccuh 'you are' (plural and informal).