usted

Etymology
From (lit. "your mercy" (etymological) or "your grace" (idiomatic)), an honorific style. In 17th-century Spanish, there were a number of variants, including the intermediate forms and. Cf. 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. The following list has the variants reported by Coromines and Pascual, with their reported first year of attestation:


 * , 1597
 * , 1617
 * , 1619
 * , 1620
 * , 1620 (Lope de Vega, Pedro Carbonero, portrayed as said by (ex-)Muslims)
 * , 1621
 * , 1625 (Vélez de Guevara, El Rey en su imagen, portrayed as criminal cant)
 * , 1626
 * , ca. 1630
 * , ca. 1631 (Quevedo, Libro de todas las cosas y otras muchas más, portrayed as said by (ex-)Muslims)
 * , 1635
 * , 1635
 * (in Quiñones de Benavente, died 1651)

Pronoun

 * 1)  ; you (singular)
 * 2)  ; you (singular)

Usage notes

 * Functionally, usted and ustedes are second person pronouns, but grammatically, the verbs they govern are conjugated in the third person. (This is the same distinction as seen in English with the difference between "You are welcome to stay here longer" but "Your Excellency is welcome to stay here longer.") In Andalucia, ustedes uses the forms associated with . See Appendix:Spanish pronouns for details. Compare Sanskrit.