Tu

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Table of contents

1 Catalan 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Pronoun 1.4 Inflection 1.5 See also 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Pronoun 2.4 Inflection 2.5 See also 3 Interlingua 3.1 Derivation 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Pronoun 3.4 Inflection 4 Italian 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Pronunciation 4.3 Pronoun 4.4 Inflection 4.5 See also 5 Latin 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Pronunciation 5.3 Pronoun 5.4 Inflection 5.5 See also 6 Lingua Franca Nova 6.1 Derivation 6.2 Pronunciation 6.3 Alternative Spellings 6.4 Pronoun 6.5 Adjective 7 Lojban 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Pronoun 8 Portuguese 8.1 Etymology 8.2 Pronunciation 8.3 Pronoun 8.4 Inflection 8.5 See also 9 Romanian 9.1 Etymology 9.2 Pronunciation 9.3 Pronoun 9.4 Inflection 10 Romanica 10.1 Derivation 10.2 Pronunciation 10.3 Adjective 10.4 Pronoun 10.5 Inflection 11 Spanish 11.1 Etymology 11.2 Pronunciation 11.3 Adjective 11.4 See also 12 Tok Pisin 12.1 Derivation 12.2 Noun 13 Vietnamese 13.1 Pronunciation 13.2 Verb

Catalan

Etymology

Latin tu.

Pronunciation

IPA	X-SAMPA
/tu/

Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular)

Inflection

nominative	tu
oblique proclitic	et, t'-
oblique enclitic	te, -'t

See also

• vostè, vós (plural or polite)
• vosaltres (plural)

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French

Etymology

Old French tu, from Latin tu.

Pronunciation

IPA	SAMPA
/ty/

Pronoun

tu (possessive adjective: ton)

1. you (singular).

Inflection

Nominative	tu
Emphatic	toi
Oblique	te

See also

• vous (plural form and polite singular form)

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Interlingua

Derivation

Latin and common Romance tu.

Pronunciation

IPA	X-SAMPA
/tu/

Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular)

Inflection

subject	tu
object	te
reflexive	te
possessive	tu, tue

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Italian

Etymology

Latin tu.

Pronunciation

IPA	SAMPA
/tu/

Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular)

Inflection

nominative	tu
prepositional	te
object, reflexive	ti
possessive	il tuo, la tua, i tuoi, le tue; tuo, tua, tuoi, tue

See also

• Lei (polite singular form)
• voi (plural and polite singular form)
• Loro (polite plural form)

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Latin

Etymology

Proto-Indo-European *tū̆. Cognates include Ancient Greek σύ (sy), English thou, and Russian ты (ty).

Pronunciation

IPA	X-SAMPA
/tuː/	/tu:/

Pronoun

tū (possessive adjective: tuus)

1. you (singular).

Inflection

nominative	tū
accusative	tē
genitive	tuī
dative	tibi
ablative	tē

• The nominative is also used for the vocative.

See also

• vos (plural)

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Lingua Franca Nova

Derivation

Latin and common Romance tu.

Pronunciation

IPA	X-SAMPA
/tu/

Alternative Spellings

• ту (tu, Cyrillic)
• του (tu, Greek alphabet)

Pronoun

tu

1. You (singular)

Adjective

tu

1. Your; belonging to (singular) you

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Lojban

Pronunciation

IPA	SAMPA
/tu/	/tu/

Pronoun

tu

1. that over there; something distant from both speaker and listener

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Portuguese

Etymology

Latin tu.

Pronunciation

IPA	SAMPA
/tu/

Pronoun

tu (possessive adjective: teu m, tua f)

1. You (singular, informal)

Inflection

subject	tu
prepositional	ti
object	te

See also

• vós (plural)
• você (polite)

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Romanian

Etymology

Latin tu.

Pronunciation

IPA	SAMPA
/tu/

Pronoun

tu (possessive adjective: tău m, ta f)

1. you (singular); the second person, tu the person that is spoken to, or written to.

Inflection

(incomplete)

subject	tu
reflexive	te

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Romanica

Derivation

Interlingua tu.

Pronunciation

IPA	X-SAMPA
/tu/

Adjective

tu

1. your; belonging to (singular) you

Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular)

Inflection

nominative	tu
after preposition	te
object, reflexive	te
possessive	tue

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Spanish

Etymology

Latin tuus.

Pronunciation

IPA	SAMPA
/tu/

Adjective

tu (plural: tus)

1. your

See also

• tú
• vos

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Tok Pisin

Derivation

English two.

Noun

tu

1. The number two.

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tū/

Verb

tu

1. to meditate