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Does any language have a word for the situation when somebody frequently uses the pronoun "We" in "I" stead in his speach?

By analogy with the german pronoun du(thou) -> duzen (use the informal form of address/call someone by their first name) or with the russian pronoun "ты"(thou) -> тыкать (use the informal form...)

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    Not exactly the name for such situation, but a similar thing: In Korean, the first person plural possessive "우리 /u.ri/" replaces the first person singular possessive "나의 or 내 /na.e/ or /nɛ/" in informal speech. – Ignatius Mar 05 '19 at 12:23

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In English this is commonly called the royal we, or nosism more formally.

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosism
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