حضرتك

Arabic

حَضْرَة‎ (ḥaḍra, “presence”) + كَ/ كِ‎ (ka/ ki, “your”); "your presence" (i.e. "your grace"). Compare Spanish usted (from vuestra merced (“your mercy”)), and the cognate Portuguese term você.

حَضْرَتَك • (ḥaḍratak) (feminine حَضْرَتِك (ḥaḍratik), masculine plural حَضْرَتْكُم‎ (ḥaḍratkum))

حَضْرَتَك‎ (ḥaḍratak) and حَضْرَتِك‎ (ḥaḍratik) are used in conducting business with strangers and formal or professional acquaintances, but their use is not considered compulsory in such situations (unlike French vous, Spanish usted, German Sie, etc.), and Arabic does not have a true T-V distinction. Use of the simple pronouns أَنْتَ‎ (ʾanta) and أَنْتِ‎ (ʾanti) is generally not considered rude or disrespectful.
Though morphologically third person, حَضْرَتَك‎ (ḥaḍratak) and حَضْرَتِك‎ (ḥaḍratik) display second-person agreement (thus, verbs whose subject is حَضْرَتَك‎ (ḥaḍratak) or حَضْرَتِك‎ (ḥaḍratik) are conjugated in the second person).
Similarly, although حَضْرَتَك‎ (ḥaḍratak) is technically a form of the feminine noun حَضْرَة‎ (ḥaḍra), it displays masculine gender agreement.
Although morphologically singular, the dual and plural forms display dual and plural agreement, respectively.

Declension of pronoun حَضْرَتَك (ḥaḍratak)

Singular	Masculine		Feminine
	basic singular triptote‎; singular of irregular pronoun		singular triptote in ـَة (-a)‎; singular of irregular pronoun
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	—	حَضْرَتَك ḥaḍratak	—	حَضْرَتِك ḥaḍratik
Nominative	—	حَضْرَتُكَ ḥaḍratuka	—	حَضْرَتُكِ ḥaḍratuki
Accusative	—	حَضْرَتَكَ ḥaḍrataka	—	حَضْرَتَكِ ḥaḍrataki
Genitive	—	حَضْرَتِكَ ḥaḍratika	—	حَضْرَتِكِ ḥaḍratiki
Dual	Masculine		Feminine
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	—	حَضْرَتْكُمَا‎ ḥaḍratkumā	—	حَضْرَتْكُمَا‎ ḥaḍratkumā
Nominative	—	حَضْرَتُكُمَا‎ ḥaḍratukumā	—	حَضْرَتُكُمَا‎ ḥaḍratukumā
Accusative	—	حَضْرَتَكُمَا‎ ḥaḍratakumā	—	حَضْرَتَكُمَا‎ ḥaḍratakumā
Genitive	—	حَضْرَتِكُمَا‎ ḥaḍratikumā	—	حَضْرَتِكُمَا‎ ḥaḍratikumā
Plural	Masculine		Feminine
	plural unknown‎; plural of irregular pronoun		—
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	—	حَضْرَتْكُم‎ ḥaḍratkum	—	—
Nominative	—	حَضْرَتُكُم‎ ḥaḍratukum	—	—
Accusative	—	حَضْرَتَكُم‎ ḥaḍratakum	—	—
Genitive	—	حَضْرَتِكُم‎ ḥaḍratikum	—	—

حضرتك • (ḥadertak/ ḥadertik)

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