vuestra merced

Spanish

Etymology

vuestra (“your”) + merced (“mercy”)

Pronoun

vuestra merced

  1. (archaic, formal) your grace; your mercy; you

Usage notes

Like the modern equivalent usted and the English equivalent your grace, the pronoun vuestra merced is formal and semantically second person, but grammatically third person.

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