Summary: number in personal pronouns

[Richard Valovics]

> By the way, in Russian families with children the husband can call his
> wife not only by her name, but simply mat' - 'mother', and she can call
> him otec - "father".
>
> Elena Skribnik

This is also the case in Hungarian and Danish. And Danish goes
even further: It is very common to refer to the (co-)owner of a pet as
'mor' (Mum) or 'far' (Dad), when talking to the pet.

Richard Valovics
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