person, Spanish maintains the so-called "T-V distinction" between familiar and formal modes of address. The formal second-person pronouns (italic=yes, italic=yes) take third-person verb forms.

The second-person familiar plural is expressed in most of Spain with the pronoun italic=yes and its characteristic verb forms (e.g., italic=yes 'you eat'), while in Latin American Spanish it merges with the formal second-person plural (e.g., italic=yes). Thus, italic=yes