2nd person singular SEN - YOU
2nd person plural SİZ - YOU
Here are the differences on usage.
1. If you are talking to A friend, use SEN.
2. If you are talking to A foreigner, whose age is clearly LOWER than you, mostly A kid, you MAY use SEN.
3. If you are talking to MANY friends, use SİZ.
4. If you are talking to A foreigner, use SİZ (a person you don't know or just met). You may change to SEN when you feel that you became friends.
5. If you are talking to A person, whose age is clearly HIGHER than you, use SİZ, (even you have a friendship between). Excepting your family.
6. If you are talking to A person, whose social status, rank etc is HIGHER than you, use SİZ, to show your respect to his/her status.
7. If you are talking to A friend, and you feel that your friendship is not good as old days, use SİZ, to make him think about his relationship to you. A small nuance in spoken language, not in the written one.
You have to use 1 and 2 in required places. 7 is an extreme and rare usage. Always show respect to foreign people, people that you don't know. Social status, rank and your respect is very important. But if you feel that you have a close enough friendship with any people(5,6) you can also use SEN.
These are social rules of SEN and SİZ usage. In letters, if you are writing to your friend, lover, husband, wife etc use SEN. If you are writing to "a family member of your" lover, husband, wife, friend etc use SİZ to express your respect to them. You may also use SEN, if your relationship or friendship is very close to those people. But be careful, wrong usage of SEN may be rude.
In the light of above explanations, it will help translators to distinguish SEN or SİZ, which are expressed in only one word (YOU) in English, if you tell the addressee of your letter. If you don't tell the addressee, for your private reasons, it may be hard to distinguish them. Or just tell them to use SİZ, mostly everybody will translate using SEN.
You may prefer to change sen -> siz, or siz -> sen yourself.
Excepting some words that can be good to use with sen or siz, the rules is simple.
Nasılsın ? -> SEN
Nasılsınız ? -> SİZ
Senin araban. -> SEN
Sizin arabanız. -> SİZ
Change every SEN word to SİZ. And add -(i)z suffix to verbs and related words. Here -(i) can change into (ı,u,ü) depending on vowel harmony rule.
warm regards,
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