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your majesty is/are?

English translation: Is your majesty seeing the Prime Minister this weekend?

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
English term or phrase:your majesty is/are?
Selected answer:Is your majesty seeing the Prime Minister this weekend?
Entered by: Anna Maria Augustine (X)

15:28 Dec 30, 2005
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics
English term or phrase: your majesty is/are?
Your majesty is seeing the prime minister this weekend, aren't you?

Your majesty are seeing the prime minister this weekend, aren't you?

What is the correct form of this question and besides, what is the proper tag question for the given correct sentence?
thanks in advance
Johnycash23
Is your Majesty seeing the Prime Minister this weekend?
Explanation:
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Note added at 4 mins (2005-12-30 15:32:25 GMT)
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Or:
Your majesty is seeing the Prime Minister this weekend, aren't you Sir/Madam?
Selected response from:

Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Local time: 06:53
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
5 +12Is your Majesty seeing the Prime Minister this weekend?
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
4 +11Your majesty, you are seeing the prime minister this weekend, aren't you?
David Knowles
4 +3Your Majesty is...
Rachel Fell
5 +1Your majesty IS seeing the prime minister this weekend, aren't you?
airmailrpl


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +12
Is your Majesty seeing the Prime Minister this weekend?


Explanation:
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Note added at 4 mins (2005-12-30 15:32:25 GMT)
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Or:
Your majesty is seeing the Prime Minister this weekend, aren't you Sir/Madam?

Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Local time: 06:53
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 28
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Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jack Doughty
2 mins
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agree  Enza Longo: 1st option
2 mins
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agree  Edith Kelly
13 mins
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agree  giogi
31 mins
  -> Thank you
agree  Dave Calderhead: & with Enza - and best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2006 (:-{(>
54 mins
  -> thank you and you too. Hope it's a busy one with translations.
agree  Peter Shortall: The "royal we" I have heard of, but not the "royal you"!
1 hr
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agree  Jo Macdonald: Yep, nice one Anna Maria, sounds just right.
1 hr
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agree  KathyAnna O
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agree  Alfa Trans (X)
2 hrs
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agree  ahmadwadan.com
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agree  Alexandra Tussing
13 hrs
agree  oxygen4u: :)
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Your majesty IS seeing the prime minister this weekend, aren't you?


Explanation:
your majesty is/are?

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 01:53
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 32

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Francesca Callegari
34 mins
  -> thank you
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52 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +11
Your majesty, you are seeing the prime minister this weekend, aren't you?


Explanation:
This gets out of the very awkward mixture of third person and second person caused by the tag. It's also a slightly less stilted way of addressing the person, and is applicable to all ranks, such as Prime Minister, Ambassador, Bishop etc.

David Knowles
Local time: 05:53
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  cmwilliams (X)
9 mins
agree  Andrey Belousov (X)
29 mins
agree  Christine Andersen: Good points all the way
32 mins
agree  Veronica Prpic Uhing
34 mins
agree  KathyAnna O
1 hr
agree  russka (X): "aren't you" part shows that the askerer already has knowledge about the event and questions just to make sure if his/her information is corect. anyway if this is the meaning of the content of the paragraph then this answer is more propriet.
3 hrs
agree  Rebecca Barath
5 hrs
agree  Romanian Translator (X)
6 hrs
agree  Brie Vernier: Prefer this
6 hrs
agree  Alexandra Tussing
13 hrs
agree  Tsogt Gombosuren
3 days 10 hrs
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Your Majesty is...


Explanation:
Your Majesty is seing the Prime Minister this weekend, I believe?

also might be said this way

Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:53
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  russka (X): perfect
1 hr
  -> Thank you russka:))
agree  Alexandra Tussing
9 hrs
  -> Thank you Alexandra:)
agree  Marie Scarano
11 hrs
  -> Thank you Marie:)
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