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# The forms with ''-l-'' are used after consonants, except for ''t'', ''d'', or ''n''; those with ''-r-'' after vowels and the previously mentioned consonants.
# The forms with ''-l-'' are used after consonants, except for ''t'', ''d'', or ''n''; those with ''-r-'' after vowels and the previously mentioned consonants.


For courtesy forms, traditionally the locution ''la sinyoria'' is used (e.g. ''la sinyoria dixil'' "you [formal] say"), with third person singular agreement no matter if the referent is plural or singular. Among younger generations, French influence has made ''vus'' (e.g. ''vus dixiṭi'' as the formal equivalent of ''tu dixis'') also common as a courtesy form.
For courtesy forms, traditionally the locution ''la sinyuria'' is used (e.g. ''la sinyuria dixil'' "you [formal] say"), with third person singular agreement no matter if the referent is plural or singular. Among younger generations, French influence has made ''vus'' (e.g. ''vus dixiṭi'' as the formal equivalent of ''tu dixis'') also common as a courtesy form.


===Verbs===
===Verbs===