Difference Between Usted and Ustedes

Usted and Ustedes both are Spanish words. These are used in different ways and can have different meanings as well in different places. The terms Usted always gets confused with Ustedes. People have a lot of confusion about the usage of Usted and Ustedes.

Usted vs Ustedes

The main difference between Usted and Ustedes is that Usted meaning is you in English. On the other hand, Ustedes means you guys in English. Usted is used in a singular place to denote a single person. On the next side of the table, Ustedes is used in plural terms to denotes more than a single person.

An example for the usage of Usted can be, Senorita, can you please sign here? You used here denotes the usage of Usted in Spanish. Usted gets used in a sentence that gets used to denote an individual as a first-person. For example, if we look at the same sentence in Spanish, it will look like, Señorita, ¿usted firmar aquí?

Similarly, the usage of Ustedes gets used to denote a group of people or two of them. An example for the usage of Ustedes can be, Are you two feeling well? The term you used, in this case, denotes two persons at the same time. Let us look at the usage of Usted in Spanish of the same sentence. ¿Están ustedes dos sintiéndose bien?

Comparison Table Between Usted and Ustedes

What is Usted?

Usted is a Spanish word it has various other words in a competition that can get used in place of you. The other words that get replaced with usted in many cases are, Tú, Vosotros, Usted, and Ustedes. The term is a conflict as it is used as a formal as well as informal tone also. Usted is always a conflicting word for most Spanish learning people.

Usted is also used to represent someone older than you. For example, Mam, can you please sign here? Or Sir, you want this? Here in this case usage of Usted will be like, Señor, usted quiere esto. The form of noun here is a singular person who is respected and older than you. It also gets used in places where you have to denote 1st person or 3rd person. 

In other words, Usted in Spanish gets considered informally. The other form of Usted is Tu that gets used as an informal word. 

What is Ustedes?

Ustedes can be used differently in both masculine and feminine tones. For example, You two look beautiful today. When Ustedes get used in spanish it will look like, Ustedes dos se ven muy hermosas hoy. This sentence here used is in a feminine tone.

Let us look at the masculine way of writing and speaking the same sentence. For example, You two look beautiful today. It will get translated to Spanish as Ustedes dos se ven muy hermosos hoy.

The way of using Ustedes is only in an informal way. The word Ustedes is the plural to word Usted. The person used in terms of Ustedes is only 2nd person noun. Ustedes does not have any synonyms like Usted. 

Main Differences Between Usted and Ustedes

1. Usted gets used to a single person and whom you treat as an older person. On the other hand, Ustedes is used for two or more people and is the plural form of Usted.
2. Usted gets used in many different ways, but Ustedes gets used in a single form that is to denote many people at the same time. 
3. The word Usted can be used in a single tone like masculine and feminine. On the other hand, Ustedes gets used in the case of both feminine and masculine forms of sentences.
4. Usted is a formal as well as an informal form of the pronoun. On the second side, Ustedes gets used as a formal form of the pronoun.
5. Usted is a 1st person as well as a 3rd person noun, which has different cases discussed above. On the other side, Ustedes gets used in a single form that is the 2nd person. 

Conclusion

Spanish is a popular language worldwide. From songs to daily speaking people, it has crossed numerous parameters. The people whose mother tongue is not Spanish are also interested to learn this language. But those who learn it always get stuck to a point, at that point where they do not know about the usage of Usted and Ustedes. 

The usage of both Usted and Ustedes words is different though these both are Spanish words. One gets used in singular form, and the other gets used in plural form. Usted is the informal way of pronoun, whereas Ustedes is a formal pronoun. 

Both have different forms and are used differently in feminine and masculine cases. The main difference lies in the form of pronouns Usted and Ustedes are. Usted is a 1st person pronoun, and Ustedes is a 2nd person pronoun. Ustedes gets commonly used as a pronoun denoting two people at the same time.

Usted has a variant called Tu. Ustedes does not have any synonyms that mean the same to it. The meaning of Usted is you in the English Language. On the other hand, the Ustedes word has a different meaning, that is, you two or you guys.

The above-mentioned examples denote the use of Usted and Ustered. For example, You get it is translated as Usted lo consigue. In the case of Ustedes, You two get it over here is translated as Ustedes dos, tráiganlo aquí.

References

1. https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=-Wx0RP0_cPwC&oi=fnd&pg=PA247&dq=difference+between+usted+vs+ustedes&ots=R0zYw968ZS&sig=wr_01Vbbi5mPjaHNUCe0vm_FXh8&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=difference%20between%20usted%20vs%20ustedes&f=false
2. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel-Aijon-Oliva/publication/336073231_The_coherence_between_functional_patterns_and_cognitive_construction_Spanish_usted_and_ustedes_as_displaced_second_persons/links/5d8cf96da6fdcc25549e6a7f/The-coherence-between-functional-patterns-and-cognitive-construction-Spanish-usted-and-ustedes-as-displaced-second-persons.pdf