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Suddenly overwhelmingly nostalgic for greeting the classes I taught English to in Carinthia in 2003 with a cheery 'Griaß eich!', while still being too young at the time to realise that was probably quite cringeworthy if you were one of the students.

Two dialects of Swedish in Finland used/uses ”et” of the nominative dual. The very much levelled one around Helsinki used to have it as a polite singular variant, whereas the traditional Närpes dialect on the west coast still uses it as a plain singular as an enclitic after the verb.

So equivalent to ihr/euch in German?

Also in some varieties of Yiddish!

Did you actually turn up with just one other person? It would be very cool if they had different little plaques for 'thee', 'you' and 'git' equivalents, and chose the right one for your arrival.

There's still "enk zwe" ("you two") in my dialect. Is this a double dual? 😦😅

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