Editing T–V distinction (section)

==== Scandinavian languages ====
{{further|Du-reformen}}
A ''T–V'' distinction was once widespread in the [[North Germanic languages]] but its use began rapidly declining in the second half of the 20th century,<ref name="icelandic">{{cite news|date=1999-10-29|title=Þéranir á meðal vor|publisher=[[Morgunblaðið]]|language=is|url=https://timarit.is/page/1949629#page/n1/mode/2up}}</ref><ref name="BandleBraunmüller2002">{{cite book|author1=Oskar Bandle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6b7WwBC5tRAC&pg=PA1631|title=The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages|author2=Kurt Braunmüller|author3=Lennart Elmevik|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|year=2002|isbn=978-3-11-017149-5|pages=1631–}}</ref> coinciding with the [[Counterculture of the 1960s|1960s youth rebellion]].<ref name="BandleBraunmüller2002" /> The ''V'' variant has in practice completely disappeared from regular speech in [[Swedish language|Swedish]] spoken in Sweden{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}, Norwegian and [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]].<ref name="icelandic" /> In [[Faroese language|Faroese]] and [[Finland Swedish]], however, it is still occasionally used.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://svenska.yle.fi/a/7-1343312|title=Niandet är artigt eller nedlåtande – olika servicesvenska i Sverige och Finland|date=2018-11-08|access-date=2024-09-30}}</ref>

The use of the ''V'' variant in [[Danish language|Danish]] has declined dramatically, but as of 2023 not completely disappeared.<ref name="BandleBraunmüller2002" /> In Danish the ''T'' variant is "du" and the ''V'' variant is a capitalized "De".<ref name="BandleBraunmüller2002" />

Swedish both had a ''V''-variant of "you" and an even more formal manner of addressing people, which was to address them in the [[Third person (grammar)|third person]] ("Could I ask Mr. Johnson to...").<ref name="icelandic" />