vuesa merced

Shortened form of vuestra (“your”) + merced (“mercy”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌbwesa meɾˈθed/ [ˌbwe.sa meɾˈθeð̞] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˌbwesa meɾˈsed/ [ˌbwe.sa meɾˈseð̞] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: vue‧sa mer‧ced

vuesa merced

1. (archaic, formal) your grace; your mercy; you

• Like the modern equivalent usted and the English equivalent your grace, the pronoun vuesa merced is formal and semantically second person, but grammatically third person.