Question

Tu or Vous? For each of the people below, write tu or vous to indicate whether you would use the INFORMAL or THE FORMAL form of language with them.

1. a friend you've had since elementary school

2. Mademoiselle Gahagan

3. Your gym teacher

4. your friend's little brother

5. the barista at Starbucks

6. your doctor

7. your mom or your dad

8. your siblings

9. your friend's parents

10. a waiter at a restaurant

11. Monsieur Hannum

12. Madame Hockaday (the office secretary)​

Answer 1

Answer:

1: Tu

2: Vous

3: Vous

4: Tu

5: Vous

6: Vous

7: Tu

8: Tu

9: Vous

10: Vous

11. Vous

12: Vous

Explanation: Use Tu when referring to friends, students of the same age, kids, family, colleagues, pets, and when talking to someone younger than you

Use Vous when you don't know someone's age, a client, waiter, professor, people older than you, for work, superiors like bosses

Answer 2

1. Informal
2. Formal
3. Formal
4. Informal
5. Formal