in addressing God and other Christian figures (such as Jesus Christ or the Blessed Virgin), animals, and objects or ideas. Sociologically, the use of this form is widening. Whereas traditionally the switch to is often a symbolic milestone between people, sometimes sealed by drinking a glass of wine together (, cf. Brüderschaft (trinken) in German), today people under the age of about thirty will often mutually adopt automatically in informal situations. A notable example is the Internet: strangers meeting online often use the informal forms of address, regardless of age or status differences. Nevertheless, formal forms of address are alive and well in Hungarian: The third-person verb conjugation is the primary basis of formal address. The choice of which pronoun to use, however, is fraught with difficulty (and indeed a common solution when in doubt is to simply avoid using any pronoun at all, using the addressee's name or title instead). The pronoun (plural ), for instance, is considered the basic formal equivalent of "you", but may not be used indiscriminately, as it tends to imply an existing or desired personal acquaintance. (It would not, for instance, ordinarily be used in a conversation where the relative social roles are predominantly important—say, between professor and student.) Typical situations where might be used are, e.g., distant relatives, neighbours, fellow travellers on the train, or at the hairdresser's. If one already knows these people, they may even take offence if one were to address them more formally. On the other hand, some urbanites tend to avoid , finding it too rural, old-fashioned, offensive or even intimate. Note that coincides with the reflexive pronoun (cf. him/herself), so e.g. the sentence can have three meanings: "Did he hit himself?", "Did he hit you?" or "Did you hit yourself?". (plural ) is the formal, official and impersonal "you". It is the form used when people take part in a situation merely as representatives of social roles, where personal acquaintance is not a factor. It is thus used in institutions, business, bureaucracy, advertisements, by broadcasters, by shopkeepers to their customers, and whenever one wishes to maintain one's distance. It is less typical of rural areas or small towns, more typical of cities. It's often capitalized in letters. Other pronouns are nowadays rare, restricted to rural, jocular, dialect, or old-fashioned speech. Such are, for instance, and . There is a wide spectrum of third-person address that avoids the