EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English lo, loo, from Old English lā. Conflated in Middle English by lo!, a corruption of lok!, loke! (“look!”) (as in lo we! (look we!)). Cognate with Scots lo, lu (“lo”). See also look.
InterjectionEdit
lo
ContractionEdit
lo
- (colloquial) hello ('lo; see hallo)
TranslationsEdit
look, see, behold
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Variant of low.
AdjectiveEdit
lo (not comparable)
- Informal spelling of low.
- Can you turn the fan down to lo?
Derived termsEdit
- lo-cal
- lo-tech
Related termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
AsturianEdit
ArticleEdit
lo n sg (masculine el, feminine la, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)
- (definite) the
PronounEdit
lo
- it (third-person singular neuter direct pronoun)
BasqueEdit
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -u
PronounEdit
lo (enclitic, contracted 'l, proclitic el, contracted proclitic l')
- him (direct object)
DeclensionEdit
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
ChickasawEdit
CornishEdit
EsperantoEdit
NounEdit
lo (plural lo-oj, accusative singular lo-on, accusative plural lo-ojn)
- The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.
See alsoEdit
- (Latin script letter names) litero; a, bo/be, co/ce, ĉo/ĉa, do/de, e, fo/ef, go/ge, ĝo/ĝe, ho/ha, ĥo/ĥi, i, jo/je, ĵo/ĵi, ko/ka, lo/el, mo/om, no/en, o, po/pa, ro/ar, so/es, ŝo/eŝ, to/ta, u, ŭo/eŭ, vo/vi, zo/ze (Category: eo:Latin letter names)
GalicianEdit
PronounEdit
lo m (accusative)
Usage notesEdit
The l- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, and is suffixed to the preceding word
Related termsEdit
IdoEdit
InterlinguaEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin illum, by dropping il- and -m. Latin illum is the accusative singular of ille.[1]
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -o
ArticleEdit
| Italian Definite Articles | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| masculine | il lo |
i gli |
| feminine | la | le |
lo m sg (plural gli)
- (the form of il that is used before the so-called impure consonants, that is, s+consonant, gn, ps, x or z; before a vowel it becomes l’) the
- l’osso — the bone
- lo stato — the state
- lo zoo — the zoo
PronounEdit
lo m sg (plural li)
- him
- Lo conosci? — Do you know him?
- this or that thing, it
- quando te lo diedi — when I gave it to you
SynonymsEdit
- (this): ciò
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 2002, Giuseppe Patota, Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, ISBN 88-15-08638-2, page p. 123:
LojbanEdit
CmavoEdit
lo (article)
- an article which converts a selbri into a sumti by "returning" an instance of the x1 sumti of the following word, which would otherwise function as a selbri; unlike "le", this word does not add a connotation of definiteness (i.e., it would not translate to English as "the")
- ro lo mlatu cu nelci lo ladru
- All cats like milk.
- ro lo mlatu cu nelci lo ladru
Usage notesEdit
- A sumti phrase begun with lo ends with the elidable terminator ku unless no ambiguity results (in which case the terminator is elided).
- The article lo behaves in a rather epsilon operator-like fashion. For example, let K be a predicate standing for the Lojban selbri klama, and let P be a predicate standing for the selbri prenu, then the Lojban sentence "lo prenu cu klama" [1] could be expressed symbolically as
, where 
stands for "lo prenu". - In a phrase such as "lo ci prenu" (where ci acts as an "inner quantifier"), the selbri which follows it may or may not "distribute" with respect to it, so that the "three people" may or may not be interpreted as acting as a concerted group, or so-called "mass". To be more precise, if the group acts concertedly, precede lo with lu'o, or equivalently, replace lo with loi. If the group does not act concertedly, but is instead "innocent" (the selbri "distributes" with respect to it), then use lo'i instead of loi.[2]
- A rule of thumb might be to avoid using inner quantifiers with lo altogether, just as in English it would wrong to say "*a three dogs".[3] On the other hand, "a set of three dogs" would translate as "lo'i ci gerku", and "a group of three dogs (act as a team to) surround a man" would be "loi ci gerku cu sruri lo nanmu".
- In a phrase such as "ci lo prenu" (where ci acts as an "outer quantifier"), the selbri which follows it does "distribute" with respect to it, so that the selbri applies to each one of the three individuals, separately.[2]
, where 
stands for "lo prenu".Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
lo (Zhuyin ㄌㄛ˙)
Usage notesEdit
- Almost all syllables transliterated from Chinese speech contain one of four diacritics indicating tone. This is one of the few syllables in the Chinese language that is transcribed only in a toneless form.
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Norwegian BokmålEdit
NovialEdit
OccitanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- lou (Mistralian)
ArticleEdit
lo (feminine la, masculine plural los, feminine plural las)
- the; masculine singular definite article
Old ProvençalEdit
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
lo
- Alternative form of o (third-person masculine singular objective pronoun.) Used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m). The consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary.
Coordinate termsEdit
See alsoEdit
| Portuguese personal pronouns (edit) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Nominative (subject) |
Objective (direct object) |
Objective (indirect object) |
Prepositional | Prepositional with com |
Non-declining | ||||||
| m | f | m | f | m and f | m | f | m | f | m | f | |||
| Singular | First | eu | me | mim | comigo | ||||||||
| Second | tu | te | ti | contigo | você | ||||||||
| o senhor | a senhora | ||||||||||||
| Third | ele | ela | o (lo, no) |
a (la, na) |
lhe | ele | ela | com ele | com ela | o mesmo | a mesma | ||
| se (reflexive) | si (reflexive) | consigo (reflexive) | |||||||||||
| Plural | First | nós | nos | nós | connosco (Portugal) conosco (Brazil) |
a gente | |||||||
| Second | vós | vos | vós | convosco | vocês | ||||||||
| os senhores | as senhoras | ||||||||||||
| Third | eles | elas | os (los, nos) |
as (las, nas) |
lhes | eles | elas | com eles | com elas | os mesmos | as mesmas | ||
| se (reflexive) | si (reflexive) | consigo (reflexive) | |||||||||||
| Indefinite | se (reflexive) | si (reflexive) | consigo (reflexive) | ||||||||||
RomanschEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) lad
AdjectiveEdit
lo m (feminine loa, masculine plural los, feminine plural loas)
SynonymsEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin illum, accusative of ille. Pronoun form from Latin illud, neuter of ille.
ArticleEdit
lo
- neuter definite article used to make abstract nouns from adjectives; the
- lo pobre
- the poor one
- lo pobre
PronounEdit
lo
See alsoEdit
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First person: Second person: |
Third person: Demonstrative: |
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
-
audio (file)
NounEdit
lo c
- a lynx
DeclensionEdit
Declension of lo
Related termsEdit
VietnameseEdit
XhosaEdit
ZuluEdit
PronounEdit
-lo
- Combining stem of lona.
See alsoEdit
Class 5 concords[edit]
Class 11 concords[edit]
DeterminerEdit
lo
- this (class 1, class 3)
See alsoEdit
Class 1 concords[edit]
| Full noun prefix: | umu-2, um-, u-3 |
| Basic noun prefix: | mu-2, m-, -3 |
| Subject concord: | u-, -ka- |
| Object concord: | -mu-2, -m- |
| Possessive concord: | wa- |
| Adjective concord: | omu-1, om- |
| Relative concord: | o- |
| Pronoun: | yena, -ye, -khe1 |
| 1 With possessive concords. 2 With single-syllable stems. 3 With class 1a nouns. |
|
| See Appendix:Zulu concords for a full table. | |
Class 3 concords[edit]
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