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"Are you a lawyer?"
Translation:Er du en advokat?
June 12, 2015
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[deactivated user]
"Er I ...?" means "Are you (plural)?" (as in "Are y'all a lawyer?")
That doesn't work because we are only referring to a single lawyer.
So is "I" simply the 2nd person plural, "you"? I thought, because it is always capitalized, it might be a polite form of address, like "Sie" in German, "vous" in French (where it is also the 2nd person plural) and "usted" in Spanish. Does Danish not have a polite form at all? Is the queen also "du"? Thanks for taking the time to answer!
[deactivated user]
Just like German, we use the 3rd person plural for addressing people formally. In this use, it is capitalised: De
This form is only used for the royal family, though. Use du/I with everyone else.