In general, Koreans avoid using second person singular pronouns, especially when using honorific forms.

This honorific form of address, it is said, once inspired an urge to salute in Americans.

Not infrequently a different (suppletive) stem is used for honorifics, or the honorific form is in some other way irregular.

Pakistan has a large number of honorific forms that may be used with or as a substitute for names.

Some elderly Shiga people also use -ru/raru as a casual honorific form.

There was some mockery of her sharpness, perhaps, in the honorific form of address.

In general second person singular pronouns are avoided, especially when using honorific forms.

The copula inflects like any verb, except that it has a special honorific form.

He used the personal honorific form of "mother."

The word owarai is the honorific form of the word warai, meaning "a laugh" or "a smile".