usted

Betekenis

1. (by-personal-gender,feminine,formal,masculine) second person formal; you (singular)
2. (Colombia,Costa-Rica,by-personal-gender,feminine,masculine) second person informal; you (singular)

Koppelteken as

us‧ted

Geslag

♂️ Manlik

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/usˈted/

Etimologie

From vuestra merced (lit. "your mercy" (etymological) or "your grace" (idiomatic)), an honorific style. In 17th-century Spanish, there were a number of variants, including the intermediate forms vuesasted and vusted. Cf. Portuguese você, Galician vostede, Catalan vostè, Asturian vusté and Sardinian bostè. The following list has the variants reported by Coromines and Pascual, with their reported first year of attestation:
Early modern variants
* vuesasted, 1597
* vuasted, 1617
* vusted, 1619
* usted, 1620
* bosanzé, 1620 (Lope de Vega, Pedro Carbonero, portrayed as said by (ex-)Muslims)
* vuesarced, 1621
* voazé, 1625 (Vélez de Guevara, El Rey en su imagen, portrayed as criminal cant)
* vucé, 1626
* vuarced, ca. 1630
* boxanxé, ca. 1631 (Quevedo, Libro de todas las cosas y otras muchas más, portrayed as said by (ex-)Muslims)
* vuested, 1635
* voarced, 1635
* vusté (in Quiñones de Benavente, died 1651)

Sinne

No mucho , porque usted cosecha lo que siembra .

Not much, because you reap what you sow.

Está usted absuelto , capitán Crocker.

You are acquitted, Captain Crocker.