Informal/Formal

[thedevilishone.livejournal.com]

How would you tell someone to not use the "ты" for with you? Example, if someone said, "Ты хочешь?" and I would rather them be formal...Like, literally, "Don't 'ты' me!

Comments

[a-garvey.livejournal.com]

Rude: не тычьте мне | ты мне не тычь
Cold: мы с вами на "ты" не переходили | мы на брудершафт не пили
Polite: пожалуйста, обращайтесь ко мне на "вы" | я предпочел бы общаться на "вы"

[dyadya-mityay.livejournal.com]

Можно просто: Давайте на "вы".

[dontbeakakke.livejournal.com]

ne me tutoie pas!

[ob-ivan.livejournal.com]

hey bud, it's learn RUSSIAN, not French : )
however, thanks for that. now i know it in French too

[devinshire.livejournal.com]

Я не ваша подружка! Не тыкайте мне!

Works every time. :)

[cpelkey.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a whole arm linking ceremony that you do when you finally use the (don't have Cyrillic fonts on my work computer) tyi form? Or is that in Germany?

Tradition

[danvolodar.livejournal.com]

Well, there is. It's called: "drinking for brudershaft" (I'm not quite sure in spelling), "pit' na brudershaft", "пить на брудершафт", and naturally origins in Germany. This ceremony is not necessary, though.