Honestly, you don't know when you're well off.
Just the choice between tu and usted. If only life were that simple here. There are about a dozen possibilities in Indonesian. After
three pages of discussing the issue, my grammar book concludes "The above discussion of pronouns and pronoun substitutes is far from exhaustive. Many other forms occur,...".
What I do like, and I wish English had, is two forms of we. Indonesian has
kita and
kami .
Kita is we, including you.
Kami is we, not including you. So if I say, for example, "kita will meet my mother at the airport", you're coming to the airport. If I say "kami will meet my mother at the airport", you're not coming.
Bingley
