Arabic-L:LING:polite plurals

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Date: 30 Oct 2009
From:Ghayda Al Ali <gaa011 at yahoo.com>
Subject:polite plurals

I'm Iraqi from Baghdad, I've been raised to address my grandparents  
and elder people by using Plural forms "حضرنكم/تفضلوا", The  
plural forms also used in the south as you have mentioned in Najif in  
Houza. It is also used some parts of Qatar, Sharja (UAE), Bahrain and  
Lebanon. I lived in for a while in these places.
Ghayda

Ghayda Al Ali


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