uwe
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
uwe
- non-attributive form of uw (English: yours)
- Normally used in conjunction with the definite article de or het depending on the gender of what is being referred to.
- Die auto is de uwe. — That car is your one. That car is yours.
- Dat huis is het uwe. — That house is your one. That house is yours.
- Dat is de/het uwe. — That is your one. That is yours.
- Normally used in conjunction with the definite article de or het depending on the gender of what is being referred to.
- (archaic) inflected form of uw
Inflection edit
subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
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singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | ||
1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me | mijner, mijns |
2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je | jouwer, jouws |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich | harer, haars |
3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
plural | |||||||||
1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons | onzer, onzes |
2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je | – |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich | hunner, huns |
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). |
5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural. |
Esmeralda edit
Noun edit
uwe
- Alternative form of uvve
References edit
- Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Contribuciones a las lenguas y culturas de los Andes (2005), page 241: "uwi o uwe en esmeraldeño"
Middle Dutch edit
Determiner edit
uwe
- inflection of u:
Swahili edit
Verb edit
uwe
Tukang Besi North edit
Noun edit
uwe
References edit
- Mark Donohue, A Grammar of Tukang Besi (1999, →ISBN
Tukang Besi South edit
Noun edit
uwe
References edit
- Mark Donohue, A Grammar of Tukang Besi (1999, →ISBN
Wolio edit
Noun edit
uwe
References edit
- Johannes Cornelis Anceaux, The Wolio Language: Outline of Grammatical Description and Texts
- Morfologi kata kerja bahasa Wolio (1986)
Yoruba edit
Etymology 1 edit
Cognate with Yoruba ìwé. Possibly from ù- (“nominalizing prefix”) + wé (“to bind, to wrap”), literally “That which can be bound”. Compare with ewé and fi wé
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ùwé
Etymology 2 edit
Cognates with Yoruba iwe, Ifẹ̀ Yoruba ighe
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
uwe
Zazaki edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Iranian *Hā́fš (“water”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hā́ps (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water, body of water”). Compare Persian آب (âb), Pashto اوبه (obë), Avestan 𐬀𐬞 (ap), etc.
Noun edit
uwe
Synonyms edit
- aw (Dimli)
References edit
- Ludwig Paul, Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie (1998)