tutoyer

American  

[too-twah-yey, ty-twa-yey] / ˌtu twɑˈyeɪ, tü twaˈyeɪ /

verb (used with object)

tutoyered, tutoyed, tutoyering

1. to address (someone), especially in French, using the familiar forms of the pronoun “you” rather than the more formal forms; address familiarly.

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Etymology

Origin of tutoyer

1690–1700; < French, to address as tu and toi (the familiar singular forms for “you” in French)

Example Sentences

“I am Dominique. Just call me Dominique. Not Madame—Dominique. I will tutoyer you. You can tutoyer me, too,” she says, indicating that we’re all to use the informal form of address.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

"The tutoyer of the Italian voice is agreeable, however."

From Lemorne Versus Huell by Stoddard, Elizabeth

C'est mon sentiment que nos relations ne peuvent pas se bien continuer si vous ne me donnez pas la permission de vous tutoyer.

From Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But he was growing warm, and began to tutoyer Hereward.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles

C’est mon sentiment que nos relations ne peuvent pas se bien continuer si vous ne me donnez pas la permission de vous tutoyer.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis