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Hand me / I'll take.
Read across a row to watch one language climb its own ladder. Read down a column to see nine answers to the same problem. Every sentence is played by your device's voice for that language, where you have one.
Every language fills it with the same concept, so the sentences differ for one reason rather than two.
| Language | Closefriends, family, people younger than you | Politecolleagues, strangers, shop staff — the safe default | Deferentialcustomers, clients, bosses, officials | What politeness does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 日本語 | rebuilt | |||
| Français | reworded | |||
| Español | reworded | |||
| Deutsch | rebuilt | |||
| Italiano | rebuilt | |||
| Bahasa Melayu | rebuilt | |||
| ქართული | adds words | |||
| 普通话 | adds words | |||
| 廣東話 | adds words |
The last column asks whether the polite sentence still contains the casual one. Adds words means the original survives intact and politeness is bolted on the outside; rebuilt means the sentence was remade. Measured on the frames, so the filled-in word cannot skew it.
Click any sentence to see what it is doing.
Want these for a job or a place rather than one at a time? Circumstances builds a whole set from the situation you are in.