Hindi

Pronoun

आप • ‎(āp) ‎(Urdu spelling آپ)

1. you (formal, polite and grammatically plural)
2. your Honor, your worship (reverential usage, see Usage Notes)

Declension

Usage notes

• आप ‎(āp) is the most formal way of expressing "you" in Hindi and is used when addressing elders or those higher in social status. Because less formal forms could offend others, आप ‎(āp) is the safest way to express "you" unless there is reason to be less formal.
• Because आप ‎(āp) is grammatically plural (adjectives and verbs etc affected by it take their plural forms) even when there is only one person being referred to, the term आप लोग ‎(āp log) (literally: you people) can be used to specify that more than one person is being referred to because of T-V distinction.

See also

• तुम ‎(tum) (mid level formality, grammatically plural)
• तू ‎(tū) (complete lack of human formality, grammatically singular)

References

• John T. Platts (accessed 07-31-2012), “A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English”, in (Please provide the title of the work)

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

आप ?

1. water