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Examples

  • Vous avez aussi récemment reçu votre nouvelle carte Family, avec tutoiement en prime?

    Sur l’arrière-train! — Climb to the Stars 2006

  • After Balzac's departure from Neufchatel the tone of his letters to Madame Hanska changed; he used the _tutoiement_, and his adoration increased.

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • Je crois qu'il a ete heureux de pratiquer avec moi ce tutoiement, qui ne s'adapte pas a l'anglais, et qui est si francais.

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 1887

  • * From this point in the original Serge and Albine thee and thou one another; but although this _tutoiement_ has some bearing on the development of the story, it was impossible to preserve it in an English translation.

    La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

  • The Parti Québécois has had a long history of support among teachers, but the Premier's mandating of respectfulness in schools may well win some over; students are henceforth to address teachers with formal vouvoiement, not informal tutoiement.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2011

  • Que ce soit clair: j’ai le tutoiement trop facile.

    Sur l’arrière-train! — Climb to the Stars 2006

  • Je crois qu’il a ete heureux de pratiquer avec moi ce tutoiement, qui ne s’adapte pas a l’anglais, et qui est si francais.

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

  • During the French Revolution, and again in the liberal 60’s, waves of tutoiement helped to get the point across that all men should be equal and be addressed in the same way.

    Voulez-vous coucher… 2004

  • During the French Revolution, and again in the liberal 60’s, waves of tutoiement helped to get the point across that all men should be equal and be addressed in the same way.

    lost weekend 2004

  • (think tutoiement in the French Revolution), people adopting emerging forms of communication like social media, are also embracing the consonant social identities.

    Mashable! 2010

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