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Day: June 17, 2016

You can say you to me

June 17, 2016April 3, 2026 Lisa

Formal or informal? That is the question. There are two ways to say ‘you’ in German: ‘Sie’ and ‘du’, formal and informal. Of all the tricky things there are in learning a language I found this to be a difficult… Read moreYou can say you to me

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