If você is the formal version of tu, then why do the endings for the verbs change?

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For example, if we’re referring to the verb comer, why is it:

você come and not você comes like it is for tu comes?

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@abeer, você is used as a formal 2nd-person pronoun, but it structurally works as a 3rd-person pronoun, which means that the verb conjugations follow the same patterns as for the pronouns ele and ela. Languages such as Spanish, Italian, French and German also have separate verb conjugations for informal and formal pronouns. It’s just how the languages have evolved, I’d say.

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Thank you. A bit confusing to remember. Guess I’ll just have to keep that in mind.

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