los
Contents
AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
ArticleEdit
los m pl (masculine sg el, feminine sg la, neuter sg lo, feminine plural les)
- (definite) the
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronounEdit
los (enclitic, contracted 'ls, proclitic els)
- them (masculine, direct or indirect object)
- them (feminine, indirect object only)
DeclensionEdit
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
los m anim
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
los m inan
DeclensionEdit
DanishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
los
NounEdit
los c (singular definite lossen, plural indefinite losser)
InflectionEdit
NounEdit
los n (singular definite losset, plural indefinite los)
InflectionEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Dutch los, from Old Dutch *los, from Proto-Germanic *lusaz.
AdjectiveEdit
los (comparative losser, superlative meest los or lost)
InflectionEdit
| Inflection of los | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | los | |||
| inflected | losse | |||
| comparative | losser | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | los | losser | het lost het loste |
|
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | losse | lossere | loste |
| n. sing. | los | losser | loste | |
| plural | losse | lossere | loste | |
| definite | losse | lossere | loste | |
| partitive | los | lossers | — | |
Derived termsEdit
VerbEdit
los
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle Dutch los, from Old Dutch *los, from Proto-Germanic *luhsuz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, to shine”) or from a substrate language.[1] Cognate with Old Saxon lohs, Old High German luhs, Old English lox, from a similar Germanic form also Swedish lodjur. Cognates outside Germanic include Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), Lithuanian lūšis, Old Church Slavonic роусь (rusĭ), Old Irish lug, Old Armenian լուսանունք (lusanunkʿ).
NounEdit
los m (plural lossen, diminutive losje n)
- (archaic) lynx (specifically the Eurasian lynx)
SynonymsEdit
AnagramsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Philippa, M.; Debrabandere, F.; Quak, A.; Schoonheim, T.; Van der Sijs, N. (2003–2009), “lynx”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Dutch Low SaxonEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, cognate with Dutch los and English loose.
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ɔs
AdjectiveEdit
los
FrenchEdit
NounEdit
los m (plural los)
SynonymsEdit
- louange (modern)
Further readingEdit
- “los” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /loːs/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /lɔs/ (regionally; chiefly as interjection or when meaning “going on”)
Etymology 1Edit
From Old High German lōs.
AdjectiveEdit
los (comparative loser, superlative am losesten)
- Alternative form of lose (“loose”)
AdverbEdit
los (only used in combination with a verb)
- off, rid of
- Ich bin meine Erkältung los.
- I've got rid of my cold.
- Ich bin meine Erkältung los.
- going on
- Hier ist einiges los.
- There's a lot going on here.
- Hier ist einiges los.
InterjectionEdit
los
Usage notesEdit
In compound verbs it is generally vain to distinguish those in which los is the adjective los(e) from those in which it is the adverb. For example, in losmachen (“loosen”) it seems to be the adjective, in losfahren (“leave”) and loswerden (“get rid”) it is the adverb.
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
los
- Imperative singular of losen.
InterlinguaEdit
Middle DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Dutch *los, from Proto-Germanic *lusaz.
AdjectiveEdit
los
InflectionEdit
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “los”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “los (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Borrowing from Low German lots (short form of lotsman); compare with German Lotse.
NounEdit
los m (definite singular losen, indefinite plural loser, definite plural losene)
- (nautical) a pilot (person who guides ships in and out of a harbour)
ReferencesEdit
- “los” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Borrowing from Low German lots (short form of lotsman).
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
los m (definite singular losen, indefinite plural losar, definite plural losane)
- (nautical) a pilot (as above)
ReferencesEdit
- “los” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
NovialEdit
OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
ArticleEdit
los (singular lo, feminine la, feminine plural las)
- the; masculine plural definite article
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *lusą (“loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewHs- (“to cut loose; sever; lose”). Cognate with Old Norse los (“looseness; breaking up”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
los n (nominative plural los)
InflectionEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
See the verb loer (“to laud”).
NounEdit
los m (oblique plural los, nominative singular los, nominative plural los)
- glory; positive reputation
DescendantsEdit
- French: los
Old High GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also Old English lēas, Old Norse lauss.
AdjectiveEdit
lōs
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German lōʒ, from Old High German hlōz, from Proto-Germanic *hlautiz.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
los m inan
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
SynonymsEdit
- (lottery ticket): kupon
Further readingEdit
- los in Polish dictionaries at PWN
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
los
- Alternative form of os (third-person masculine plural 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
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *ôlsь.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lȍs m (Cyrillic spelling ло̏с)
DeclensionEdit
SloveneEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /ˈlóːs/
- Tonal orthography: lọ̑s
NounEdit
lós m anim (genitive lósa, nominative plural lósi)
DeclensionEdit
SpanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin illōs accusative plural masculine of ille.
ArticleEdit
los m pl
- the
- ¿Qué hacen los muchachos?
- "What do the boys do?"
- ¿Qué hacen los muchachos?
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronounEdit
los
- Accusative of ellos and ustedes (when referring to more than one man); them, you all (formal)
- Plural masculine or neuter pronoun, e.g. los que no hablan, "those who do not speak"
See alsoEdit
| nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | singular | yo | me | mí1 | |||
| plural | masc. | nosotros | nos | nosotros | |||
| fem. | nosotras | nosotras | |||||
| second person | singular | tuteo | tú | te | ti1 | ||
| voseo | vos | vos | |||||
| formal2 | usted | le | lo/la3 | usted | |||
| plural | familiar4 | masc. | vosotros | os | vosotros | ||
| fem. | vosotras | vosotras | |||||
| formal/general2 | ustedes | les | los/las3 | ustedes | |||
| third person | singular | masc. | él | le | lo | él | |
| fem. | ella | la | ella | ||||
| neut. | ello5 | lo/la3 | ello | ||||
| plural | masc. | ellos | les | los | ellos | ||
| fem. | ellas | las | ellas | ||||
| sing. & pl. | reflexive | — | se | sí1 | |||
- Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
- If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., "Se lo dije" instead of "Le lo dije")
SwedishEdit
White HmongEdit
VerbEdit
los
AntonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)