Olá!
How would you address your teacher if he/she is the same age as you? Is there any difference from if the teacher is older?
If you called him or her você, would they feel uncomfortable? If you called them "o senhor/a senhora", would they feel uncomfortable?
This may be obvious to most of you, but coming from a language that doesn't use polite/familiar address at all (Swedish), these situations make me want to assess every situation for itself. I really try to watch my tongue and still sometimes forget the formal address. Sometimes the choices make me insecure because calling a person of my age the Swedish equivalence of "o senhor" (=Ni) would be considered sarcastic, outright crazy or almost unpolite in all its weirdness. It would certainly make the other person feel uncomfortable, which is definitely not my intention.
Adeus e muito obrigada :)
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Olá!
I study European Portuguese, and I'd like to discuss the following with you. If I have understood the situation correctly, there are three ways of addressing someone:
tu (the most informal, only between friends and family),
você (a little more formal, for someone you don't know of the same age (?)),
o senhor/a senhora (for elderly people, your boss, teacher, someone higher up in rank).
A few times I have heard the useage of first name + third person sing. verb as a way of saying "you". An example: Would you like some more wine, Roberto? --> O Roberto quer mais vinho?
But how formal is that way of addressing someone? Is it on the level of você? Or o senhor/a senhora? Would you say it to a friend?
Very grateful for you ideas here!
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